What does blackness mean?

Definitions for blackness
ˈblæk nɪsblack·ness

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. black, blackness, inkinessnoun

    the quality or state of the achromatic color of least lightness (bearing the least resemblance to white)

  2. total darkness, lightlessness, blackness, pitch blackness, blacknoun

    total absence of light

    "they fumbled around in total darkness"; "in the black of night"

Wiktionary

  1. blacknessnoun

    The state, property or quality of being black.

    The blackness of outerspace comes from the lack of anything to reflect light rather than the absence of black.

  2. blacknessnoun

    The result or product of being black.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Blacknessnoun

    Etymology: from black.

    Blackness is only a disposition to absorb, or stifle, without reflection, most of the rays of every sort that fall on the bodies. John Locke, Elements of Natural Philosophy, c. ii.

    There would emerge one or more very black spots, and, within those, other spots of an intenser blackness. Isaac Newton, Opt.

    His tongue, his prating tongue, had chang’d him quite,
    To sooty blackness from the purest white. Joseph Addison, Ovid.

    His faults in him seem as the spots of heav’n,
    More fiery by night’s blackness. William Shakespeare, Ant. and Cleopatra.

ChatGPT

  1. blackness

    Blackness commonly refers to the quality or state of being black in terms of color. In a broader and more complex context, it can also refer to the cultural, social, or political aspects related to individuals or groups who identify as being part of the Black or African Diaspora. This can include shared experiences, identity construction, or a sense of solidarity and community. However, it should be noted that such experiences and identities are diverse and not monolithic. This definition often informs discussions in academia, particularly in fields like African-American or Black studies, sociology, and cultural studies.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Blacknessnoun

    the quality or state of being black; black color; atrociousness or enormity in wickedness

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of blackness in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of blackness in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of blackness in a Sentence

  1. Nikole Hannah-Jones:

    And that is that steps forward, steps towards racial progress, are always met with an intensive backlash, that we are a society that willfully does not want to deal with the anti-Blackness that is at the core of so many of our institutions and really our society itself.

  2. Feltham:

    Discontent is like ink poured into water, which fills the whole fountain full of blackness. It casts a cloud over the mind, and renders it more occupied about the evil which disquiets it than about the means of removing it.

  3. Devon Jerome Crawford:

    Mayor Rahm Emanuel is implicated in the shooting death of Laquan McDonald, this killing indicates the detachment of city leaders from the plight of black, teenage youth on the South Side of Chicago and a willingness by the city to criminalize blackness as opposed to reforming structural inequality.

  4. Kansas City.Throughout her adult life:

    Caribbean rooted Bronx Blackness.

  5. Perry Brass:

    Ageism is the racism of the gay world. We really believe that age—and all of our fears that it carries—will “rub off” on us, the way that racists once believed blackness would.

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