spiritual darkness
Absence of grace
Spiritual darkness describes a state of being cut from divine light, moral guidance, or higher purpose.
In religious contexts, it suggests separation from God, sin, or evil influence: The preacher warned of spiritual darkness descending on the land.
More broadly, it can mean inner emptiness, despair, or loss of meaning—a condition of the soul rather than the mind: After his wife died, he entered a period of spiritual darkness.
- shadowLight blocked by object
- dark nightUnlit nighttime hours
- despairTotal absence of hope
- voidWithout legal effect
- black holeCollapsed star's remnant
abyss · lost · lost soul · emptiness · sin · moral decay · blindness · gloom · fallen · fallen angel · torment · inner demons · demonic · corruption · hopelessness · without hope · occult · evil
- spiritual afflictionsdemonic possession, apostasy, backsliding, damnation, defilement
- impietyungodliness, unholiness, irreverence, sacrilege, blasphemy
- apophatic theologynegative theology, via negativa, unsaying, unknowing, negation
spiritual darknessspiritual light
Sacred inner illumination
divine light · enlightenment · illumination · spiritual awakening · inner light
spiritual darknessrighteousness
Moral correctness or virtue
holiness · purity · moral purity · sanctity · virtue
spiritual darknessspiritual life
Religious or transcendent dimension
divine presence · salvation · redemption · spiritual freedom · hope
spiritual, spiritually, spirituality, spirit, spirits, spirited, spiritless, spiriting, darkness