raylessness
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raylessness (uncountable)
- (poetic) Utter darkness, without any ray of light.
- 1844, Edgar Allan Poe, The Premature Burial:
- I knew that I had now fully recovered the use of my visual faculties—and yet it was dark—all dark—the intense and utter raylessness of the Night that endureth for evermore.
- (botany) The condition of being rayless