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whiteness
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The state of being white.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the quality or state of the achromatic color of greatest lightness (bearing the least resemblance to black) [syn: white ] [ant: black ]
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
In colorimetry , whiteness is the degree to which a surface is white. An example of its use might be to quantitatively compare two pieces of paper which appear white viewed individually, but not when juxtaposed. The International Commission on Illumination ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Whiteness \White"ness\, n. [AS. hw[=i]tness.] The quality or state of being white; white color, or freedom from darkness or obscurity on the surface. --Chaucer. Want of a sanguineous tinge; paleness; as from terror, grief, etc. ``The whiteness in thy cheek.'' ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English hwitnes ; see white (adj.) + -ness .
Usage examples of whiteness.
The top of the shaft was battlemented, and she caught splashes of color between the teeth of the stone scarps, as if flowers were massed there and spilling blossoms against the whiteness of the tower.
A small smear of blood blotched the whiteness of his shirt at the neck.
The sun, rather low on the horizon, struck full on the houses of the town, bringing out their whiteness.
She tried to feel how things were, but could only receive a number of confused, jumbled images, mostly overlaid with blurring whiteness.
To her left, in the triangle of wild, uncultivated land between the meadow and the vast, overtowering whiteness of the Wall, the ground grew soft and marshy, veined with streams and pocked with tiny pools.
He had about him a pearlized whiteness in old age, but a keen expression in his eye, and white eyelashes.
Mother, plucking at his coat, was a matronly goose with feathers of Persil whiteness.
The pearls fell in among the rubies, rolling right and left, making the rubies look still redder by contrast with their snowy whiteness.
Her eyelids drooped, and she fell into her recurring dream of the sleeping dragon, focusing on the smooth scaleless skin of its chest, a patch of whiteness that came to surround her, to draw her into a world of whiteness with the serene constancy of its rhythmic rise and fall, as unvarying and predictable as the ticking of a perfect clock.
Sparkling like specular hematite, the lengths of black shimmer only emphasized the whiteness of her flesh.
The blood red of his hair spilled over his shoulders so that it framed the unbelievable whiteness of his body.
A gaudy thing, its color spilling down the starchy whiteness of her shirtwaist.
The current, beaten into sudden whiteness, eddied round the legs of horses, the throats of swimming dogs, and pressed up to the edges of the travaux where frightened children sat among litters of puppies.
The reflection of a dim street lamp served to outline his cloaked shape against the whiteness of an undemolished surface.
Their marvellous whiteness of the teeth is to be ascribed to the pure vegetable diet of these people, and the uninterrupted healthfulness of their natural mode of life.