Nonwhiteness
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 The property of not being racially white. uncountable
"He puzzles that no one nowadays makes use of the elaborate terminology for degrees of nonwhiteness: quadroons and octoroons, mestizos and zambos and the rest."
Antonyms
All antonymsExample
More examples"He puzzles that no one nowadays makes use of the elaborate terminology for degrees of nonwhiteness: quadroons and octoroons, mestizos and zambos and the rest."
Etymology
From non- + whiteness.