Plural of 'darkness'; multiple instances or types of darkness, or various states of being dark or lack of light.
Plural form of 'darkness' using the regular '-es' suffix. 'Darkness' comes from Old English 'deorcnes' (from 'deore' meaning dark) with the '-ness' suffix creating the abstract noun.
Interestingly, 'darknesses' appears frequently in religious and philosophical texts—it's used to mean both literal absence of light and metaphorical states like ignorance or evil.
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