Nonwhiteness

noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 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."

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"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.

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