Blackness is an English word with synonyms like black or dark. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Blackness in a sentence
Blackness meaning
- The state or quality of being black in colour.
- Any space that such colour pervades.
- Darkness, gloominess; depression.
Synonyms of Blackness
Using Blackness
- The main meaning on this page is: The state or quality of being black in colour. | Any space that such colour pervades. | Darkness, gloominess; depression.
- Useful related words include: black, dark, pitch blackness, lightlessness.
- In the example corpus, blackness often appears in combinations such as: of blackness, blackness and, the blackness.
Context around Blackness
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 9 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Blackness
- In this selection, "blackness" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, anti, own, disability and gender stand out and add context to how "blackness" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include also against blackness that the and and anti blackness. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "blackness" sits close to words such as abolitionist, accomplishing and airframe, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with blackness
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
LeBron, you are a walking billboard of hypocrisy and anti-Blackness. (11 words)
On owning his blackness, he said “The film’s blackness is inseparable from its appeal. (15 words)
Blackness and chastity are common nouns, even if blackness and chastity are considered unique abstract entities. (16 words)
In the final film at Tate Modern, a lipsticked skull leers at you out of swirling blackness, while a voice put through primitive distortion rambles on about a through the universe (possibly: it’s hard to hear), riffling through your existential psyche. (42 words)
After breaking into Skrhodey's hotel room in order to trick him into drinking a liquid tracker, he once again repeatedly appeals to the colonel's Blackness — only this time, we know that Fury knows he's talking to a fraud. (41 words)
By suggesting that there was something nefarious or politically contrived about a mixed-race person claiming Blackness as her identity, he was acting as if that choice hadn’t been made for Harris when she was born to a Black father. (41 words)
Example sentences (20)
On owning his blackness, he said “The film’s blackness is inseparable from its appeal.
Blackness and chastity are common nouns, even if blackness and chastity are considered unique abstract entities.
After breaking into Skrhodey's hotel room in order to trick him into drinking a liquid tracker, he once again repeatedly appeals to the colonel's Blackness — only this time, we know that Fury knows he's talking to a fraud.
And though Kenneth’s Blackness is an underlying aspect of his experience, it is not the acute source of his alienation.
Confronted with a masked killer, the group is told they must rank their degrees of "Blackness" so that the killer can determine who to murder first.
It’s an impossible question to answer because it’s really predicated on the person and how they identify personally with their own Blackness.
LeBron, you are a walking billboard of hypocrisy and anti-Blackness.
Many on social media are the incident on "white supremacy" and "anti-blackness," while say it shows the failure of city officials to address and alleviate the frustration of business owners and residents.
Our nation’s media system has had anti-Blackness—the structural, systemic, and cultural dehumanizing of people who are Black—in its DNA.
The exhibition also investigates the colour black as a concept and explores how Black British designers have approached the idea of Blackness.
The opening scene shows a harried and desperate Cheryl feeling she has no place in the lily-white society of England, and that explains why she wants so desperately to suppress all elements of her blackness.
What Morris calls her “Black Deafhood,” has been a long journey at the intersection of sexuality, Deafness, disability, Blackness, gender, activism, and art.
Xavier Merkman, a sophomore art major at Westfield State, produced a piece that encapsulated his inner turmoil of being proud of his Blackness while being frustrated by being Black in America.
You’ll ride this terrifying coaster adventure twice with your Night Pass and will get the chance to be immersed alone in the terrifying blackness of forest at night.
But Nesby, former lead singer of Sounds of Blackness who now lives in Georgia, stole the show.
By suggesting that there was something nefarious or politically contrived about a mixed-race person claiming Blackness as her identity, he was acting as if that choice hadn’t been made for Harris when she was born to a Black father.
For people to truly combat anti-Blackness, they’d first be forced to humanize Black people, something many non-Black people aren’t ready to do.
Internalized anti-Blackness is a hell of a drug, especially when the Bible is your most faithful dealing.
In the final film at Tate Modern, a lipsticked skull leers at you out of swirling blackness, while a voice put through primitive distortion rambles on about a through the universe (possibly: it’s hard to hear), riffling through your existential psyche.
It is for this sin — a sin against history but also against Blackness — that the show seeks to prosecute him.
Common combinations with blackness
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- of blackness 14×
- blackness and 11×
- the blackness 9×
- blackness is 7×
- blackness of 7×
- blackness to 5×
- his blackness 4×
- blackness as 3×
- blackness but 3×
- for blackness 3×