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nonwhiteness

nonwhiteness noun: the property of not being racially white.

Noun

nonwhiteness (uncountable)

  1. The property of not being racially white.
    • He puzzles that no one nowadays makes use of the elaborate terminology for degrees of nonwhiteness: quadroons and octoroons, mestizos and zambos and the rest.2015 August 7, Nigel Cliff, “Hugh Thomas’s ‘World Without End: Spain, Philip II, and the First Global Empire’”, in New York Times

Origin of nonwhiteness

From non- + whiteness.

Questions about nonwhiteness

What does nonwhiteness mean?
Nonwhiteness means the property of not being racially white.
What part of speech is nonwhiteness?
Nonwhiteness is a noun.

Words near nonwhiteness in the dictionary

  1. nonwheeled
  2. nonwhimsical
  3. nonwhipped
  4. nonwhiskey
  5. nonwhite
  6. nonwhiteness
  7. nonwhites
  8. nonwhole
  9. nonwholesale
  10. nonwidowed
  11. nonwife

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