Blankness is the quality of showing or holding nothing at all. The blankness of the page.
It describes a face and a sheet of paper in exactly the same word. The blankness of a new page is what stops more writing than any lack of ideas.
1nounblanknessThe quality of showing or holding nothing at all, whether in a face or on a page, named with the noun ending -ness.
“The blankness of his expression gave away more than an answer would.”
blankness is a quality.
Proto-Indo-European
*bʰleyǵ- — to shine
Proto-Germanic
*blankaz — white, bright, blinding
Frankish
*blank — gleaming, white, blinding
Old French
blanc
Middle English
blank
English
blank
English, today
blankness
From blank + -ness. blank comes from Middle English blank, blonc, blaunc, blaunche, from Anglo-Norman - blonc, blaunc, blaunche, from Old French blanc, feminine blanche, from Frankish blank (“gleaming, white, blinding”), from Proto-Germanic blankaz (“white, bright, blinding”), from Proto-Indo-European bʰleyǵ- (“to shine”). Akin to Old High German blanch (“shining, bright, white”) (German blank), Old English blanc (“white, grey”), blanca (“white steed”), Spanish blanco. More at blink, blind, blanch. a doublet of blanc.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA