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nonwhiteness en · NOUN

Etymology

From non- + whiteness.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The property of not being racially white.
    • 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. 2015 August 7, Nigel Cliff, “Hugh Thomas’s ‘World Without End: Spain, Philip II, and the First Global Empire’”, in New York Times: