Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The state of being white; white color, or freedom from any darkness or obscurity on the surface.
- n. Lack of color in the face; paleness, as from sickness, terror, or grief; pallor.
- n. Purity; cleanness; freedom from stain or blemish.
Wiktionary
- n. The state of being white.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The quality or state of being white; white color, or freedom from darkness or obscurity on the surface.
- n. Want of a sanguineous tinge; paleness; as from terror, grief, etc.
- n. Freedom from stain or blemish; purity; cleanness.
- n. obsolete Nakedness.
- n. (Zoöl.) A flock of swans.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the quality or state of the achromatic color of greatest lightness (bearing the least resemblance to black)
- n. the state of being unsullied by sin or moral wrong; lacking a knowledge of evil
- n. lightness or fairness of complexion
Etymologies
- From white + -ness (Wiktionary)
Examples
“But the philosopher who asks whether the Taj has “whiteness” as a constituent and the philosopher who supposes that the Taj does have this property-constituent and asks, “What is the nature of this relation ˜constituent of™ that ˜whiteness™ bears to the Taj?” are asking questions about its ontological structure.)”
“The term whiteness studies is misleading because what we're actually trying to do is eliminate racial categories in America, but we have to study the history of racial categories to understand racism.”
“On the other hand, though you suppress the term whiteness, you do not suppress some white thing, [25] though, of course, if the particular whiteness inhere as an accident in the thing, the thing disappears as soon as you suppress the accidental quality whiteness.”
“For, if sugar produce in us the ideas which we call whiteness and sweetness, we are sure there is a power in sugar to produce those ideas in our minds, or else they could not have been produced by it.”
“What will it mean to be white when whiteness is no longer the norm?”
“To take the most obvious example, whiteness is no longer a precondition for entry into the highest levels of public office.”
“As Latoya Peterson during Jezebel writes, In Precious 'mind, whiteness is homogeneous to being loved, safe, as well as wanted.”
“But now we parched it over our fire so that the grains puffed and exploded in whiteness and all the tribe came running to taste.”
“But whiteness is the default in our thinking for Earth-specific cultural/political reasons.”
“Worse, by treating the characters of color so differently, the editor adds to the problem by implying that whiteness is “normal”.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘whiteness’.
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Guide to the Perplexed
Lexicon of terms set forth in Maimonides 'Guide to the Perplexed'. A fascinating exercise in theosophy and translation if one substitutes these definitions for a "revised" reading of the Old Testa...
eye, apprehend, associations, air, ruah : or ruhoth,..., affection, attribute, approach, accidents, ascending, articulated, back and 119 more...
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EN - fine scholarly language
exhort, accretion, twenty-nine, atrophy, additive, brilliantly, interreligious, empiricism, pathologic, limitless, half-century, vigilant and 488 more...
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white phrase/words
how white is used
white acajou, white admiral, White Africa, white ale, white-aproned, white-armed, White Army, white-arsed, white ash, white-ash breeze, White Australia, white-back and 591 more...
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The things they carried (List 2)
Listening to this as an audio book for the second time. Tim O'Brien uses simple words and phrases to great effect. Very few unfamilar and big words . The writing style reminds me of words from Joh...
The, Things, They, Carried, meant, fond, By necessity,, presented to him, far beyond, against the brick..., reaching, taut and 2940 more...
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the blood jet is poetry
A selection of frequent or favourite words from Sylvia Plath's Collected Poems, as part of my bid to read them all. Quotes can be found on each citation page.
whiteness, zen, dryad, rook, tulip, kindness, troublous, portico, prospect, blight, havoc, millrace and 62 more...
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ofravens goes bird-watching
Various names for groups of birds.
dissimulation, bouquet, parliament, chattering, convocation, exaltation, covey, congress, deceit, descent, charm, flush and 74 more...
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words I added first
oscular, monozygotic, xiphisternum, lightbox, tympanic, snowshed, riverbed, newborn, stillbirth, whiteness, unkindness, richness and 28 more...
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race discourse
diversity, colonial, white man's burden, neocolonialism, westrocentrism, whiteness, ethnocentric
Tweets
Looking for tweets for whiteness.
brobbins prism, transparency Jul 24, 2009
ofravens Whiteness I remember
About Sam: whiteness and the great run
He gave me.
from "Whiteness I Remember," Sylvia Plath Mar 26, 2008