The Collaborative International Dictionary
Albescence
Albescence \Al*bes"cence\, n. The act of becoming white; whitishness.
Wiktionary
albescence
n. The act of becoming white; whitishness.
Usage examples of "albescence".
In the darkness you may be guided by albescence, a sliver of moon, the patch of a household lantern, even the glitter of the stars.
Visibility was good because of the albescence and the even spacing of the trees and to the right and left of the crossroads there was nothing in sight so I brought the speed up progressively and cleared the harder-packed area with deadpoint momentum between acceleration and deceleration, obliquely aware that if we survived this day I would for long remember her calm and rather formal question as we and our shadow flew in whiteness among the winter trees, who are you please.