tenebrosity

[O. Fr. ténébros ité.] The quality or state of being tenebrous; darkne , gloom, gloomine . "Tenebrosity or darkne is directly opposite to light and clearne ."- P . Holland : Plutarch , p. 882. těně-bro us, a. [Lat. tene bros us, from tenebra =darkne .] Dark, gloomy. "The towering and tenebrous boughs of the cypre ." Long fellow: Evangeline, ii. 2.