nonwhiteness

English

Etymology

non- +‎ whiteness

Noun

nonwhiteness (uncountable)

1. The property of not being racially white.
   • 2015 August 7, Nigel Cliff, “Hugh Thomas’s ‘World Without End: Spain, Philip II, and the First Global Empire’”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     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.