whiteness

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: white=ness

CIDE DICTIONARY

whiteness, n. [AS. hwītness.].

•  The quality or state of being white; white color, or freedom from darkness or obscurity on the surface.  Chaucer.  [1913 Webster]
•  Want of a sanguineous tinge; paleness; as from terror, grief, etc.  Shak.  [1913 Webster]
•  Freedom from stain or blemish; purity; cleanness.  [1913 Webster]

  "He had kept
  The whiteness of his soul, and thus men o'er him wept."  [1913 Webster]
•  Nakedness.  Chapman.  [1913 Webster]
•  A flock of swans.  [1913 Webster]

ROGET THESAURUS

whiteness

Whiteness

N whiteness, argent, albification, etiolation, lactescence, snow, paper, chalk, milk, lily, ivory, alabaster, albata, eburin, German silver, white metal, barium sulphate, titanium oxide, blanc fixe, ceruse, pearl white, white lead, carbonate of lead, white, milk-white, snow-white, snowy, niveous, candid, chalky, hoar, hoary, silvery, argent, argentine, canescent, cretaceous, lactescent, whitish, creamy, pearly, fair, blond, blanched, high in tone, light, white as a sheet, white as driven snow, white as a lily, white as silver, like ivory.