Home › Words › N › nigrificationnigrificationnigrification means the act or process of making black.EtymologyFrom Latin nigrificare (“to blacken”), from niger (“black”) + -ficare (“to make”, in comparative). See -fy.nounThe act or process of making black.e.g.“the physical disquisition concerning the nigrification of the rete mucosa in blacks” — 1812, David Stewart Erskine, The Anonymous and Fugitive Essays of the Earl of Buchan:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.blackenization 76% match — The process of making or becoming more black (i.e. of African descent) or more characteristic of black culture. vs nigrification →nigrescence 75% match — The process of becoming black or dark; blackening. vs nigrification →blackening 70% match — The act or process of turning (becoming) black in colour. vs nigrification →blackenize 69% match — To increase the racially black character of. vs nigrification →nigritude 69% match — Blackness; the state of being black. vs nigrification →deniggerization 67% match — The act or process of deniggerizing; the amelioration of the dehumanization resulting from institutionalized discrimination and negative stereotypes that have been put on blacks and other groups. vs nigrification →ebonization 67% match — The process of ebonizing. vs nigrification →denigration 67% match — The act of making black; a blackening or defamation. vs nigrification →