"sunlessness" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1999 August 7, Tim Radford, “Light and shade”, in Guardian, UK, retrieved 2009-08-03:",
          "text": "In Penzance and Falmouth, the total eclipse will last for 2 minutes 2 seconds. The longest period of sunlessness will be in Romania, at 2 mins 23 seconds.",
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          "text": "Given such an aware sensibility, they move, it seems to me, marginally past the sunlessness of a great deal of the wasteland literature of this century, and past the literature of despair of our own day.",
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