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  • noun Plural form of whiteness.

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Examples

  • Thus, the similarity is not a [single] whiteness, but two whitenesses existing at once.

    Medieval Theories of Relations Brower, Jeffrey 2009

  • Again, just as plurality or multitude is not a reality different from the constituents of the plurality or multitude, neither is the similarity [of the white things] different [from their whitenesses].

    Medieval Theories of Relations Brower, Jeffrey 2009

  • Indeed, the two whitenesses can be sufficient to constitute a single species in the genus of relation.

    Medieval Theories of Relations Brower, Jeffrey 2009

  • (On the contrary, there are as many distinct whitenesses as there are white things.)

    William of Ockham Spade, Paul Vincent 2006

  • Nothing loath, his bowsman hauled him up and up, through a blinding foam that blent two whitenesses together; till of a sudden the boat struck as against a sunken ledge, and keeling over, spilled out the standing mate.

    Moby Dick; or the Whale 2002

  • The wreckage of rainbows played on those whitenesses.

    The Stars Are Also Fire Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1994

  • The wreckage of rainbows played on those whitenesses.

    The Stars Are Also Fire Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1994

  • Ahead, their whitenesses open on reeds, a lake, a deer that looks about startled and soars away.

    The Boat of a Million Years Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1989

  • Out the ports there was nothing but hurtling whitenesses.

    Space Tug Murray Leinster 1935

  • The king sat forward and looked at these flitting whitenesses, and every now and then peered up to see the flying ships overhead.

    The World Set Free Herbert George 1914

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