Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Whiteness

Whiteness , noun

[Anglo-Saxon hwītness.]

1.
The quality or state of being white; white color, or freedom from darkness or obscurity on the surface. — Chaucer
2.
Want of a sanguineous tinge; paleness; as from terror, grief, etc.
The whiteness in thy cheek. — Shakespeare
3.
Freedom from stain or blemish; purity; cleanness.
He had kept The whiteness of his soul, and thus men o'er him wept. — Byron
4.
Nakedness. [Obsolete] — Chapman
5.
(Zoology) A flock of swans.