nigrescent
/nɪˈɡrɛs(ə)nt
/ /nʌɪˈɡrɛs(ə)nt/adjective rare
Blackish.His nigrescent pelt shone in the growing darkness, the kingdom he entered was not his own, it was unclaimed....
- The peduncles are typically subglabrous to hispidulose or glandular, nigrescent; bracteoles caducous.
- This nigrescent little corridor opens onto a dimly lit dining room that has seven booths that seat four and two tables that seat two.
Derivatives
nigrescence
- Cross’ work on nigrescence, or the process of becoming Black, highlights a developmental progression from a non-Black identified assimilationist type to a strongly engaged, internalized Black identity.
- Cross proposed a four stage model of psychological nigrescence or Black self-actualization in which he suggested that Black people move from a stage of racial consciousness characterized by self-abasement and denial of their blackness to a stage characterized by self-esteem and acceptance of their blackness.
- Speculating on the African genesis of what he called ‘Africanoid’ Celts, Beddoe's index of nigrescence provided the scientific justification for racial hatred of the Irish as an inferior race.
Origin
Mid 18th century: from Latin nigrescent- 'growing black', from the verb nigrescere, from niger, nigr- 'black'.