whiteness
/ˈwaɪtnəs/
whiteness noun: the state or quality of being white (all senses).
Noun
whiteness (countable and uncountable, plural whitenesses)
- The state or quality of being white (all senses).
- [Snow] may […] exchange its whiteness for yellowness, without losing its right to be called snow; […]1666, Robert Boyle, Origin of Forms and Qualities according to the Corpuscular Philosophy
- The quality of being white (in the racial sense).
- 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 […]2013, Shelley M. Park, Mothering Queerly, Queering Motherhood, page 42
- The quality of being white noise.
- Despite this criticism, this check for whiteness of a time series enjoys much popularity as it is very easy to carry out.2005, Helmut Lütkepohl, New Introduction to Multiple Time Series Analysis, page 161
whiteness meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
whiteness in Hindi
- state of being white
- सफ़ेदी safedī
whiteness in Tamil
- வெண்மை, வெளுப்பு, வெள்ளை, நோயால் உடல் வெளிறுகை, வெளிறு, நிறக்கேடு
whiteness in Marathi
- पांढरेपणा, पांढरापणा
whiteness in Urdu
- whiteness
- بیاض bayāz, ابیض abyaz, اجلائی ujlā'ī
More languagesFewer languages
- whiteness in Bengali
- সফেদী śophedi
- whiteness in Telugu
- తెల్లదనము telladanamu
- whiteness in Malayalam
- വെണ്മ veṇma, ശുക്ലം śuklaṁ, വെളിവ് veḷivŭ
- whiteness in Kannada
- ಬಿಳುಪು, ಬೆಳ್ಪು, ಬೆಳಪು, ಬೆಳುಪು
- whiteness in Punjabi
- ਸਫ਼ੈਦੀ safaidī
- whiteness in Gujarati
- સફેદપણું, શ્વેતતા
- whiteness in Odia
- ଶ୍ୱେତତା, ଧଳାଭାବ
- whiteness in Nepali
- सेतोपन
- whiteness in Arabic
- بَيَاض bayāḍ
- whiteness in Thai
- ความขาว kwaam-kǎao
Examples of whiteness in a sentence
- To maintain whiteness apply the strips bi-weekly or once a month.
- If whiteness bespoke purity and godliness, then poor white trash implied an ungodly, desacralized, polluted whiteness.
- She set them together and opened her lips to show him all the gleamy whiteness between.
Antonyms of whiteness
Forms of whiteness
| plural | whitenesses |
|---|---|
| alternative form | Whiteness |
| alternative form (obsolete) | whitenesse |
Origin of whiteness
Inherited from Middle English whitenesse, whitnesse, whytnesse, hwitnesse, from Old English hwītnes (“whiteness”), equivalent to white + -ness.
Words formed from whiteness
- antiwhiteness
- nonwhiteness
- political whiteness
- prowhiteness
- whiteness studies
Words that rhyme with whiteness
Questions about whiteness
- What does whiteness mean?
- Whiteness means the state or quality of being white (all senses).
- What is whiteness in Hindi?
- Whiteness in Hindi is सफ़ेदी (safedī). See Whiteness meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is whiteness?
- Whiteness is a noun.
- How do you pronounce whiteness?
- Whiteness is pronounced /ˈwaɪtnəs/.
- What is the plural of whiteness?
- The plural of whiteness is whitenesses.
Words near whiteness in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: whiteness (page history and authors); whiteness (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); whiteness (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ابیض (Urdu) (page history and authors); വെണ്മ (Malayalam) (page history and authors); whiteness (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ਸਫ਼ੈਦੀ (Punjabi) (page history and authors); whiteness (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); whiteness (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); whiteness (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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