Definition of "total darkness" []

• Total absence of light (noun)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "Not total darkness yet, the massed trectops, some of their leaves showing wet like patent leather with the light from the moon that shone like a bright dollar in the sky."
• "For anyone who had been forced to spend day after anxious day wandering in total darkness on the primitive world of Longtunnel, the constrictions of thranx construction barely qualified as inconvenient."
• "Terry himself had taught him how to load the magazines, a job which meant winding unexposed film on to reels, in total darkness and by feel only."