darkening (n.)
- blackening
 - burial
 - burying
 - clouding
 - concealment
 - covering
 - covertness
 - deception
 - denigration
 - hiddenness
 - hiding
 - interment
 - invisibility
 - masking
 - mystification
 - obfuscation
 - occultation
 - overcast
 - screening
 - secrecy
 - secretion
 - shading
 - shadowing
 - smirch
 - smudge
 - smut
 - subterfuge
 - uncommunicativeness