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blackness

[ blak-nis ]

noun

  1. the quality or state of being black.
  2. the quality or state of being a Black person.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of blackness1

A Middle English word dating back to 1300–50; black, -ness
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Example Sentences

When you are firing out at night, the red tracers go out into the blackness as if you were drawing with a light pen.

The conforms of systemic racism have caused a precious grasping of your blackness that oft times seeks to destroy us.

In black-ish, Dre reacts by trying to reaffirm his blackness within his home.

“Blackness is another issue entirely apart from class in America,” Proctor said.

There seemed a sense that his blackness alone lent him a protean kind of wisdom, power, promise—hope, we might recall.

"We are going into the sunlight, out of the shadow;" and she glanced back at the west, which was of a slaty blackness.

The gas-lamps, too, seemed in a fog and struggled feebly against the blackness of the evening.

As he fell a great blackness rose around him, and with it the bewildered clamour of awakened dogs.

My head sank to the table and my hands clasped my eyes to shut out the blackness.

The mountain's shadow was over it and deepening fast, warning us to hurry before the road was lost in blackness.

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