[a. F. ténébrosité (14th c. in Godef.), f. L. tenebrōs-us: see prec. and -ITY.] Darkness; obscurity:
1490. Caxton, Eneydos, i. 13. The thicke tenebrosite of the blacke smoke.
1603. Holland, Plutarch’s Mor., 1080. That tenebrosity or darknesse is directly opposite unto light and cleerenesse.
1656. in Blount, Glossogr.
