nigritude

nigritude
/nig"ri toohd', -tyoohd', nuy"gri-/, n.
complete darkness or blackness.
[1645-55; < L nigritudo blackness, black color, equiv. to nigr- (s. of niger) black + -i- -I- + -tudo -TUDE]

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