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Meanings of whiteness in English

Portuguese
cândido
Catalan
blancor
Spanish
blanco
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The quality or state of the achromatic color of greatest lightness (bearing the least resemblance to black)

      cândido
      Portuguese
      pureza
      Catalan
      puresa

      The state of being unsullied by sin or moral wrong; lacking a knowledge of evil.

            pureza
            Portuguese
            branquicidade

            Socially constructed identity and ethnoracial category of white people.

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                  branquicidade
                  Usage of whiteness in English
                  1
                  Under this system, proximity to whiteness could increase your chances for freedom.
                  The Guardian
                  2
                  The whiteness of marble creates an ethereal, cloud-like quality: hence the title.
                  The Guardian
                  3
                  Their shapes, small in the distance, showed black against the universal whiteness.
                  The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains
                  4
                  She looked up in his face in fear at its ghastly whiteness.
                  Beyond The Rocks: A Love Story
                  5
                  The distant flat shrank in uniform whiteness and low-hanging uniformity of cloud.
                  Middlemarch
                  6
                  In the midst of it stood Mrs. Mitchell, one mass of whiteness.
                  Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood
                  7
                  His black outline looked unusually powerful in the silvery whiteness surrounding it.
                  At the Foot of the Rainbow
                  8
                  It made the prospect depressing, everything enveloped in a universal, dense whiteness.
                  Treasure and Trouble Therewith: A Tale of California
                  9
                  The fear in his face, the whiteness of hers, were plainly visible.
                  People Like That: A Novel
                  10
                  On all sides the college buildings gloomed in dusky whiteness of architecture.
                  Tramping on Life / An Autobiographical Narrative
                  11
                  Hedges and bushes made slight spots on the whiteness of the ground.
                  International Short Stories: French
                  12
                  He saw them as faint, milky globes of whiteness in the dusk.
                  Fated to Be Free: A Novel
                  13
                  The covering had been neatly turned back and the snowy whiteness opened.
                  T. Tembarom
                  14
                  She saw her father and Susan dressed in the patience of whiteness.
                  Flesh and blood
                  15
                  This whiteness was sharply defined against the healthy tint of the body.
                  The Moon Pool
                  16
                  She unwound them and they dripped from her hand in milky whiteness.
                  The Trumpeter Swan
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                  Translations for whiteness
                  Spanish
                  blanco
                  Whiteness through the time
                  Whiteness across language varieties
                  United Kingdom
                  Common
                  United States of America
                  Less common