blanqueamiento

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish blanqueamiento.

Noun

blanqueamiento (uncountable)

1. The process of becoming or making (racially) white, such as increasing the white population of a region or enforcing white cultural norms on a population.
   • 2022 October 12, José Rivers Alfaro, Something More Splendid Than Two, punctum books, →ISBN, page 84:

     Indigenous cultural differences were erased within a Mexican identity defined by the mixed bloodline of Spanish and Indian mestizaje that praised the eventual blanqueamiento of the mestize race.

Coordinate terms

• whitewashing

Spanish

Etymology

From blanquear +‎ -miento.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /blankeaˈmjento/ [blãŋ.ke.aˈmjẽn̪.t̪o]
• Rhymes: -ento
• Syllabification: blan‧que‧a‧mien‧to

Noun

blanqueamiento m (plural blanqueamientos)

1. whitening, whitewashing, bleaching (the process of making something white or whiter)

   Synonym: blanqueo

2. whitewashing (a deliberate attempt to conceal unpleasant or incriminating facts about a person or organization in order to protect their reputation)
3. money laundering (the act of engaging in transactions designed to obscure the origin of money)

Further reading

• “blanqueamiento”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10