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whiteness

noun
/ˈwaɪtnəs/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English whitenesse, whitnesse, whytnesse, hwitnesse, from Old English hwītnes (“whiteness”), equivalent to white + -ness.

  1. inherited from hwītnes — “whiteness”
  2. inherited from whitenesse

Definitions

  1. The state or quality of being white (all senses).

    • [Snow] may […] exchange its whiteness for yellowness, without losing its right to be called snow; […]

  2. The quality of being white (in the racial sense).

  3. The quality of being white noise.

    • Despite this criticism, this check for whiteness of a time series enjoys much popularity as it is very easy to carry out.

The neighborhood

Derived

antiwhiteness, political whiteness, prowhiteness, whiteness studies

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at whiteness. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at whiteness. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at whiteness

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA