What does blackness mean?
Definitions for blackness
ˈblæk nɪsblack·ness
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Princeton's WordNet
black, blackness, inkinessnoun
the quality or state of the achromatic color of least lightness (bearing the least resemblance to white)
total darkness, lightlessness, blackness, pitch blackness, blacknoun
total absence of light
"they fumbled around in total darkness"; "in the black of night"
Wiktionary
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.
blacknessnoun
The result or product of being black.
Webster Dictionary
Blacknessnoun
the quality or state of being black; black color; atrociousness or enormity in wickedness
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of blackness in Chaldean Numerology is: 9
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of blackness in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5
Examples of blackness in a Sentence
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.
When I questioned our relationship, it was in the context of you not fully understanding my Blackness and what it means to be a Black man in America, it broke my heart, because this is the last conversation I thought we'd be having. I didn't sign up to have this conversation.
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.
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.
She was raised by her mother to embrace her blackness in a world that otherwise denigrates any connection to blackness.
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- negrorCatalan, Valencian
- negrura, negrorSpanish
- mustuusFinnish
- noirceurFrench
- dubhScottish Gaelic
- чернотаRussian
- karalık, siyahlıkTurkish
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