"whiteness" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈwaɪtnəs/, /ˈʍaɪtnəs/ Audio: en-us-whiteness.ogg [US] Forms: whitenesses [plural]
Rhymes: -aɪtnəs Etymology: From Middle English whitenesse, whitnesse, whytnesse, hwitnesse, from Old English hwītnes (“whiteness”), equivalent to white + -ness. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|whitenesse}} Middle English whitenesse, {{m|enm|whitnesse}} whitnesse, {{m|enm|whytnesse}} whytnesse, {{m|enm|hwitnesse}} hwitnesse, {{inh|en|ang|hwītnes|t=whiteness}} Old English hwītnes (“whiteness”), {{af|en|white|-ness}} white + -ness Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} whiteness (countable and uncountable, plural whitenesses)
  1. The state or quality of being white (all senses). Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (state of being white): λευκότης (leukótēs) [feminine] (Ancient Greek), بَيَاض (bayāḍ) [masculine] (Arabic), ճերմակություն (čermakutʿyun) (Armenian), սպիտակություն (spitakutʿyun) (Armenian), blancura [feminine] (Asturian), blancor [feminine, masculine] (Asturian), সফেদী (śophedi) (Bengali), белота (belota) [feminine] (Bulgarian), бледност (blednost) [feminine] (Bulgarian), blancor [feminine] (Catalan), blancúria [feminine] (Catalan), albor [feminine] (Catalan), iztacāyōtl (Classical Nahuatl), witheid [feminine] (Dutch), valkoisuus (Finnish), blancheur [feminine] (French), brancor [masculine] (Galician), brancura [feminine] (Galician), albura [feminine] (Galician), სითეთრე (sitetre) (Georgian), Weiße [feminine] (German), Weißheit [feminine] (German), Weißsein [neuter] [sociology, social-science, human-sciences, sciences] (German), सफ़ेदी (safedī) [feminine] (Hindi), fehérség (Hungarian), báine [feminine] (Irish), gile [feminine] (Irish), bianchezza [feminine] (Italian), biancore [masculine] (Italian), albitūdō [feminine] (Latin), białość [feminine] (Polish), biel [feminine] (Polish), brancura [feminine] (Portuguese), alvura [feminine] (Portuguese), albiciune [feminine] (Romanian), albeață [feminine] (Romanian), albitate [feminine] (Romanian), белизна́ (belizná) (Russian), bjelina [feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), belina [feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), blancura [feminine] (Spanish), albor [masculine] (Spanish), albura [feminine] (Spanish), vithet [common-gender] (Swedish), తెల్లదనము (telladanamu) (Telugu), ความขาว (kwaam-kǎao) (Thai), arkwiññe (Tocharian B), beyazlık (Turkish), aklık (Turkish)
    Sense id: en-whiteness-en-noun-~YveDSpD Disambiguation of 'state of being white': 62 38
  2. (sociology) The quality of being white (in the racial sense). Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Sociology Translations (quality of being white): blankheid [feminine] (Dutch), witheid [feminine] (Dutch), blancheur [feminine] (French), blanchité [feminine] (French), blanchitude [feminine] (French), branquitude [feminine] (Portuguese)
    Sense id: en-whiteness-en-noun-ELVShJV- Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ness Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 22 78 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ness: 20 80 Topics: human-sciences, sciences, social-science, sociology Disambiguation of 'quality of being white': 44 56
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: whitenesse [obsolete] Derived forms: antiwhiteness, prowhiteness, whiteness studies

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          "lang": "Irish",
          "sense": "state of being white",
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          "sense": "state of being white",
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          "sense": "state of being white",
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          "word": "albiciune"
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          "roman": "belizná",
          "sense": "state of being white",
          "word": "белизна́"
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          "sense": "state of being white",
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          "code": "te",
          "lang": "Telugu",
          "roman": "telladanamu",
          "sense": "state of being white",
          "word": "తెల్లదనము"
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          "word": "ความขาว"
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          "ref": "2013, Shelley M. Park, Mothering Queerly, Queering Motherhood, page 42",
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      },
      "expansion": "whytnesse",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "enm",
        "2": "hwitnesse"
      },
      "expansion": "hwitnesse",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ang",
        "3": "hwītnes",
        "t": "whiteness"
      },
      "expansion": "Old English hwītnes (“whiteness”)",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "white",
        "3": "-ness"
      },
      "expansion": "white + -ness",
      "name": "af"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle English whitenesse, whitnesse, whytnesse, hwitnesse, from Old English hwītnes (“whiteness”), equivalent to white + -ness.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "whitenesses",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "~"
      },
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      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1666, Robert Boyle, Origin of Forms and Qualities according to the Corpuscular Philosophy",
          "text": "[Snow] may […] exchange its whiteness for yellowness, without losing its right to be called snow; […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The state or quality of being white (all senses)."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "white",
          "white"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned",
        "en:Sociology"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2013, Shelley M. Park, Mothering Queerly, Queering Motherhood, page 42",
          "text": "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 […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The quality of being white (in the racial sense)."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "sociology",
          "sociology"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(sociology) The quality of being white (in the racial sense)."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "human-sciences",
        "sciences",
        "social-science",
        "sociology"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈwaɪtnəs/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈʍaɪtnəs/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-aɪtnəs"
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-us-whiteness.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/3/3f/En-us-whiteness.ogg/En-us-whiteness.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3f/En-us-whiteness.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (US)"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ],
      "word": "whitenesse"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "bayāḍ",
      "sense": "state of being white",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "بَيَاض"
    },
    {
      "code": "hy",
      "lang": "Armenian",
      "roman": "čermakutʿyun",
      "sense": "state of being white",
      "word": "ճերմակություն"
    },
    {
      "code": "hy",
      "lang": "Armenian",
      "roman": "spitakutʿyun",
      "sense": "state of being white",
      "word": "սպիտակություն"
    },
    {
      "code": "ast",
      "lang": "Asturian",
      "sense": "state of being white",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "blancura"
    },
    {
      "code": "ast",
      "lang": "Asturian",
      "sense": "state of being white",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "blancor"
    },
    {
      "code": "bn",
      "lang": "Bengali",
      "roman": "śophedi",
      "sense": "state of being white",
      "word": "সফেদী"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "belota",
      "sense": "state of being white",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "белота"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "blednost",
      "sense": "state of being white",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "бледност"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "state of being white",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "blancor"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "state of being white",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "blancúria"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "state of being white",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "albor"
    },
    {
      "code": "nci",
      "lang": "Classical Nahuatl",
      "sense": "state of being white",
      "word": "iztacāyōtl"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "state of being white",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "witheid"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "state of being white",
      "word": "valkoisuus"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "state of being white",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "blancheur"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "state of being white",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "brancor"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "state of being white",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "brancura"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "state of being white",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "albura"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "sitetre",
      "sense": "state of being white",
      "word": "სითეთრე"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "state of being white",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Weiße"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "state of being white",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Weißheit"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "state of being white",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "sociology",
        "social-science",
        "human-sciences",
        "sciences"
      ],
      "word": "Weißsein"
    },
    {
      "code": "grc",
      "lang": "Ancient Greek",
      "roman": "leukótēs",
      "sense": "state of being white",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "λευκότης"
    },
    {
      "code": "hi",
      "lang": "Hindi",
      "roman": "safedī",
      "sense": "state of being white",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "सफ़ेदी"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "state of being white",
      "word": "fehérség"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "state of being white",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "báine"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "state of being white",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "gile"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "state of being white",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "bianchezza"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "state of being white",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "biancore"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "state of being white",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "albitūdō"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "state of being white",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "białość"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "state of being white",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "biel"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "state of being white",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "brancura"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "state of being white",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "alvura"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "state of being white",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "albiciune"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "state of being white",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "albeață"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "state of being white",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "albitate"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "belizná",
      "sense": "state of being white",
      "word": "белизна́"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "state of being white",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "bjelina"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "state of being white",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "belina"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "state of being white",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "blancura"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "state of being white",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "albor"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "state of being white",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "albura"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "state of being white",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "vithet"
    },
    {
      "code": "te",
      "lang": "Telugu",
      "roman": "telladanamu",
      "sense": "state of being white",
      "word": "తెల్లదనము"
    },
    {
      "code": "th",
      "lang": "Thai",
      "roman": "kwaam-kǎao",
      "sense": "state of being white",
      "word": "ความขาว"
    },
    {
      "code": "txb",
      "lang": "Tocharian B",
      "sense": "state of being white",
      "word": "arkwiññe"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "state of being white",
      "word": "beyazlık"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "state of being white",
      "word": "aklık"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "quality of being white",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "blankheid"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "quality of being white",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "witheid"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "quality of being white",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "blancheur"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "quality of being white",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "blanchité"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "quality of being white",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "blanchitude"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "quality of being white",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "branquitude"
    }
  ],
  "word": "whiteness"
}

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