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whiteness

/hwahyt-nis, wahyt-/US // ˈʰwaɪt nɪs, ˈwaɪt- //

白度,洁白度,白色,洁白

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the quality or state of being white.
    • : paleness.
    • : purity.
    • : a white substance.

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Examples

  • Still, we find ourselves left naked and wanting by systems devoted to protecting whiteness.

  • For each splashy profile of the 30-year-old writer that has preceded publication, there is an equally pointed critique of her earnest mediocrity or the whiteness of her imagination.

  • However, whiteness is not the only way to experience Latinidad or view our communities.

  • For the first half of the 20th century, diabetes was considered a disease of well-to-do whiteness.

  • It would be nice to say that it hasn’t always been this way, the weaponizing of whiteness, but it very much has.

  • Still, the exposed skin on my face and hands felt drawn and hot, stinging, a fire of whiteness, a burning Caucasian husk.

  • But whether good or bad, all are light as a soufflé, radiating asexual whiteness in every note.

  • Much is being said about the overwhelming whiteness of the delegate mix at the Republican National Convention.

  • The eye admireth at the beauty of the whiteness thereof, and the heart is astonished at the shower thereof.

  • His face was of an ashy whiteness; the veins of his brow stood out; his dry lips were drawn.

  • Then out of the stillness a bird's note fell through the jungle and there was a gleam of whiteness.

  • The marble used for them is of remarkable whiteness and purity, worthy, indeed, of these great works of art.

  • Putting on the nuptial robe of a passion in which life itself is concerned, the woman wraps herself in purity and whiteness.