Definitions for blackness
ˈblæk nɪsblack·ness

Princeton's WordNet(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. black, blackness, inkiness(noun)

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

2. total darkness, lightlessness, blackness, pitch blackness, black(noun)

   total absence of light

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

Wiktionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. blackness(Noun)

   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. blackness(Noun)

   The result or product of being black.

Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Blackness(noun)

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

How to pronounce blackness?

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   Alex

   US English

   

   Daniel

   British

   

   Karen

   Australian

   

   Veena

   Indian

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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. Rachel Dolezal:

   You can't just say in one sentence what is blackness or what is black culture or what makes you who you are.

2. 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.

3. Alexander Davis:

   When things are so dark like they are in the deep sea, if you reflect even a handful of photons, something can detect you, and here, these animals are covering their whole [ bodies ] in this ultra-black skin to basically suck up all the light and match the pitch blackness of the deep sea.

4. Louis Untermeyer:

   Nothing but blackness aboveAnd nothing that moves but the cars...God, if you wish for our love,Fling us a handful of stars

5. Michelle Obama:

   I've grown up in this community. I'm as black as it gets. I was born on the South side. I come from an obviously black family. We weren't rich. I put my blackness up against anybody's blackness in this state, ok ? , and Barack is a black man. And he's done more in terms of meeting his commitments and sticking his neck out for this community than many people who criticize him. And I can say that'cause I'm black.

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