whiteness

Other forms of whiteness

plural

whitenesses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about whiteness

What does whiteness mean?

whiteness means "the quality or state of the achromatic color of greatest lightness (bearing the least resemblance to black)". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in whiteness?

whiteness has 2 syllables: white-ness. The stress falls on "white". In IPA it is /ˈwaɪtnəs/.

What is another word for whiteness?

Close synonyms include white, purity, pureness, sinlessness, innocence. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is whiteness a common word?

whiteness is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.