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Definition of nigrescent in English: nigrescentadjective nʌɪˈɡrɛs(ə)ntnɪˈɡrɛs(ə)ntˌnaɪˈɡrɛs(ə)nt rare Blackish. Example sentencesExamples - The peduncles are typically subglabrous to hispidulose or glandular, nigrescent; bracteoles caducous.
- The central part of the nigrescent parade was drawn by a steam engine wholly different in appearance, this one looking less like a maladroit tin shed mounted upon a wheeled chassis and a lot more like a vehicle designed for such labour as this.
- This nigrescent little corridor opens onto a dimly lit dining room that has seven booths that seat four and two tables that seat two.
- His nigrescent pelt shone in the growing darkness, the kingdom he entered was not his own, it was unclaimed.
Synonyms black, jet-black, jet, pitch-black, pitch-dark, pitch, black as pitch, coal-black, black as night, sable, ebony, dark
Derivatives noun rare I believe my writings in the area of psychological nigrescence and racial identity have provided a level of conceptual depth which is often unseen in much of the literature published in psychological journals. Example sentencesExamples - Speculating on the African genesis of what he called ‘Africanoid’ Celts, Beddoe's index of nigrescence provided the scientific justification for racial hatred of the Irish as an inferior race.
- Cross proposed a four stage model of psychological nigrescence or Black self-actualization in which he suggested that Black people move from a stage of racial consciousness characterized by self-abasement and denial of their blackness to a stage characterized by self-esteem and acceptance of their blackness.
- Cross’ work on nigrescence, or the process of becoming Black, highlights a developmental progression from a non-Black identified assimilationist type to a strongly engaged, internalized Black identity.
Origin Mid 18th century: from Latin nigrescent- 'growing black', from the verb nigrescere, from niger, nigr- 'black'. Rhymes acquiescent, adolescent, albescent, Besant, coalescent, confessant, convalescent, crescent, depressant, effervescent, erubescent, evanescent, excrescent, flavescent, fluorescent, immunosuppressant, incandescent, incessant, iridescent, juvenescent, lactescent, liquescent, luminescent, obsolescent, opalescent, pearlescent, phosphorescent, pubescent, putrescent, quiescent, suppressant, turgescent, virescent, viridescent Definition of nigrescent in US English: nigrescentadjectiveˌnīˈɡres(ə)ntˌnaɪˈɡrɛs(ə)nt rare Blackish. Example sentencesExamples - The central part of the nigrescent parade was drawn by a steam engine wholly different in appearance, this one looking less like a maladroit tin shed mounted upon a wheeled chassis and a lot more like a vehicle designed for such labour as this.
- His nigrescent pelt shone in the growing darkness, the kingdom he entered was not his own, it was unclaimed.
- This nigrescent little corridor opens onto a dimly lit dining room that has seven booths that seat four and two tables that seat two.
- The peduncles are typically subglabrous to hispidulose or glandular, nigrescent; bracteoles caducous.
Synonyms black, jet-black, jet, pitch-black, pitch-dark, pitch, black as pitch, coal-black, black as night, sable, ebony, dark
Origin Mid 18th century: from Latin nigrescent- ‘growing black’, from the verb nigrescere, from niger, nigr- ‘black’. |