Etymology
Origin of whiteness
before 1000; Middle English whitenes, Old English hwītnes. See white, -ness
Example Sentences
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"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 hearts must have sunk seeing this black flag against the whiteness of Antarctica," said David Waterhouse, curator of the polar museum at SPRI.
From BBC • Sep. 2, 2025
The brothers of “Blood Knot” lampoon the meaning of whiteness with costume choices.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 10, 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
The surge moved like a wallowing mountain range, roiling to a whiteness at its peaks.
From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt
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