nonwhiteness

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noun

The property of not being racially white.

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Meanings

nounnonwhiteness (uncountable)
  1. uncountableThe 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

Origin

From non- + whiteness.

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APA

nonwhiteness. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/nonwhiteness

MLA

“nonwhiteness.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/nonwhiteness. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “nonwhiteness,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/nonwhiteness.

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