darkness

pimeys

tummuus

hämärä puhekieltä The state of being dark; lack of light.

(ux)

Over everything was darkness and thick silence, and the smell of dust and sunflowers.

Turning back, then, toward the basement staircase, she began to grope her way through blinding darkness, but had taken only a few uncertain steps when, of a sudden, she stopped short and for a little stood like a stricken thing, quite motionless save that she quaked to her very marrow in the grasp of a great and enervating fear.