What does "whiteness" mean?

Whiteness: Want of a sanguineous tinge; paleness; as from terror, grief, etc. "The whiteness in thy cheek." Shak.

Additional senses

  1. 2.Freedom from stain or blemish; purity; cleanness. He had kept The whiteness of his soul, and thus men o'er him wept. Byron.
  2. 3.Nakedness. [Obs.] Chapman.
  3. 4.(Zoöl.) A flock of swans.

Sources