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blackness|ˈblæknɪs|
[f. black a. + -ness.]
a. The quality or state of being black.
c1340Cursor M 8077 (Fairf.) Foure sarasinis con þai mete..of þaire blaknes hit was selcouþis. 1382Wyclif Nahum ii. 10 The face of alle as blacnesse of a pott. 1606Shakes. Ant. & Cl. i. iv. 13 The Spots of Heauen, More fierie by nights Blacknesse. 1611Bible Jude 13 The blacknesse of darkenesse. 1710H. Bedford Vind. Ch. Eng. 35 The different blackness of the Ink. 1712Addison Spect. No. 459 ⁋13 The Blackness and Deformity of Vice. 1856Kane Arct. Expl. I. xv. 167 You steer through the blackness for a lump of greater blackness.
b. (Often with capital initial.) The quality of being Black (sense 1 c); spec. the racial self-consciousness of (U.S.) Blacks, considered as a matter of pride.
1961L. Hughes Ask your Mama 8 They asked me right at Christmas if my blackness, would it rub off? I said, Ask your mama. 1968N.Y. Times 12 Mar. 45/4 A sweeping change taking place in Harlem that emphasizes blackness and African heritage. 1971Black World Mar. 87/2 ‘Blackness’ is a political/cultural concept which calls the individual to view the nobility of his ancestral civilization. 1973S. Henderson Understanding New Black Poetry 4 If there is such a commodity as ‘blackness’ in literature (and I assume that there is), it should somehow be found in concentrated or in residual form in the poetry. 1983Sunday Tel. 4 Dec. 14/2 An attempt to build up something called ‘Black culture’—coupling the idea of ‘Blackness’ to a general sense of rebellion against all forms of authority. |