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Blackness vs Backness - What's the difference?

blackness | backness |

As nouns the difference between blackness and backness

is that blackness is (uncountable) the state, property or quality of being black while backness is (phonetics) quality of being a back vowel.

blackness

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • (uncountable) The state, property or quality of being black.
    • The blackness of outerspace comes from the lack of anything to reflect light rather than the absence of black.
  • (countable) The result or product of being black.

    • Antonyms

    * whiteness

    backness

    English

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (phonetics) Quality of being a back vowel.
    • Andrew Spencer (1996), Phonology: theory and description , p. 25 :
  • :: ''The most important aspects of vowel quality are tongue height, frontness/backness and lip rounding.

    • Antonyms

    * frontness