whiteness
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English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- whitenesse (obsolete)
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English whitenesse, whitnesse, whytnesse, hwitnesse, from Old English hwītnes (“whiteness”), equivalent to white + -ness.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
whiteness (countable and uncountable, plural whitenesses)
- The state or quality of being white (all senses).
- 1666, Robert Boyle, Origin of Forms and Qualities according to the Corpuscular Philosophy:
- [Snow] may […] exchange its whiteness for yellowness, without losing its right to be called snow; […]
- (sociology) The quality of being white (in the racial sense).
- 2013, Shelley M. Park, Mothering Queerly, Queering Motherhood, page 42:
- As a white body, I have not had to face my whiteness; insofar as the world is oriented around whiteness, I rarely have to turn my attention back onto myself, as do the black and brown bodies that are “stopped” or “held up” for being out of place […]
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:whiteness.
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Translations[edit]
state of being white
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