benightednesses
/bɪˈnaɪtɪdnəsɪz/
noun
- The state or quality of being in a state of moral or intellectual darkness; ignorance or lack of enlightenment.
- Historians often write about the benightednesses of societies that resisted scientific progress.
- The benightednesses of the past were slowly lifted by the spread of education.
- The novel explores the benightednesses of a community cut off from the rest of the world.
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