whitelessness

Noun

whitelessness (uncountable)

1. The absence of white people.
   • But there is also, on occasion, an under-oxygenated air of fantasy, a shimmering mirage of whitelessness and Asian self-sufficiency.1999, Eric Liu, The Accidental Asian: Notes of a Native Speaker, page 71
   • Full disclosure: I’m white, and I’ve been intrigued, unhealthily or not, for decades by the whitelessness of Georgetown basketball.2010 January 27, Dave McKenna, “Cheap Seats Daily: Hoyas Women’s Basketball Has a Feeling of Whitelessness?”, in Washington City Paper
2. The absence of the color white.
   • It is Blackless, hence it shares that very quality, Blacklessness, with Whiteness; and it is Whiteless, hence it shares Whitelessness with Blackness .1999, Alfonso de Toro, Fernando de Toro, Jorge Luis Borges: Thought and Knowledge in the XXth Century, page 180
   • And the lines "whitelessness" shares the contradictory property with the black spot: it is "whiteless."2004, Floyd Merrell, “Neither "True" nor "False" nor Meaningless: Meditation on the Pragmatics of Knowing Becoming”, in John R. Shook, Paulo Ghiraldelli, Jr., editors, Contemporary Pragmatism, page 70