whiteness

Noun

Meaning

The quality or state of being white; white color, or freedom from darkness or obscurity on the surface.

Want of a sanguineous tinge; paleness; as from terror, grief, etc.

Freedom from stain or blemish; purity; cleanness.

Nakedness.

A flock of swans.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

white good blanch honor purity brightness clarity sanitation innocence fairness chastity cleanliness decency lightness pallor
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Antonyms

blackness commission black bloom rainbow color
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Hypernyms

condition complexion skin color skin colour achromatic color achromatic colour

Hyponyms

pearl ivory alabaster bone chalk bleach

Phrases with the word

lily-whiteness political whiteness

Anagrams

thewiness

Examples

The man who in this world can keep the whiteness of his soul is not likely to lose it in any other. Alexander Smith

The sigh of all the seas breaking in measure round the isles soothed them; the night wrapped them; nothing broke their sleep, until, the birds beginning and the dawn weaving their thin voices in to its whiteness. Virginia Woolf

To virgin minds, which yet their native whiteness hold, Not yet discoloured with the love of gold (That jaundice of the soul, Which makes it look so gilded and so foul) Abraham Cowley

What is clear should not be drawn out too much. These useless explanations, these endless examinations are a kind of long whiteness and lead to boredom. It is the uniformity of a wall, of a long piece of laundry. Joseph Joubert

Do not judge a man by the whiteness of his turbin, soap is bought on credit. Moroccan Proverb

He shows the whiteness of his teeth. Hungarian Proverb

Close letter words and terms

Whitenack whitened whitener whiteness studies Whitenight whitening