Etymology
Origin of whiteness
before 1000; Middle English whitenes, Old English hwītnes. See white, -ness
Example Sentences
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TRL's data suggests that LED and whiter headlamps may be linked to glare and that drivers might find their whiteness harder to cope with.
From BBC • Nov. 4, 2025
"Once you go inside the continent, there is nothing. It's just a big, vast expanse of whiteness and there is no life," Tordeur said.
From Barron's • Nov. 1, 2025
Their non-Jewishness, their non-otherness, their whiteness, their musical career, and their father’s birthplace—in a region that changed nationalities but ended up in Italy—enabled the family’s relatively smooth immigration process.
From Slate • Jan. 26, 2025
As Simpson's renown grew, he insulated himself more and more deeply in whiteness, as "Made in America" put forth.
From Salon • Apr. 13, 2024
One could have believed that its whiteness, smoothness, and expanse had at one time cried out rather plaintively for India ink and block lettering.
From "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger
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