tenebrosity means the state or quality of being tenebrose or tenebrous. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.
tenebrosity is pronounced /tɛnɪˈbɹɒsɪti/.
Why “tenebrosity” is a great word
TENEBROSITY — [Noun] The state or quality of being dark, shadowy, or gloomy. From Middle English tenebrosite, from Old French tenebrosité, ultimately from Latin tenebrae ("darkness"). Unlike "obscurity," which denotes a lack of clarity, or "gloom," which leans toward a melancholy mood, tenebrosity is the formal, physical fact of palpable dimness. It is the profound black of a sealed tomb, the dense velvet shadow beneath a canopy of ancient trees, and the heavy stillness that fills a vault as the last candle is snuffed—a darkness not of absence, but the patient substance from which all night is made.
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- The state or quality of being tenebrose or tenebrous.“This tenebrosity of the interior, he proceeded to say, hath not been illumined by the wit of the septuagint nor so much as mentioned for the Orient from on high which brake hell’s gates visited a darkness that was foraneous.”