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.
- (statistics, of a stochastic process) The quality of being white noise.
- 2005, Helmut Lütkepohl, New Introduction to Multiple Time Series Analysis, page 161:
- Despite this criticism, this check for whiteness of a time series enjoys much popularity as it is very easy to carry out.
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[edit]Translations
[edit]state of being white
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