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Word of the Day – Tenebrosity

By May 24, 2020Word of the Day

Tenebrosity (noun)

ten-e-bros-it-ee

The quality of being dark or shadowy.

Late Middle English from Old French ténébrosité, from Latin tenebrosus, from tenebrae ‘darkness’.

Example sentences

“The tenebrosity was broken only by occasional car lights from the road.”

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