Why this word is great
NIGRITUDE — [Noun] The state or quality of being black. From Latin nigritūdō ("blackness"), from niger ("black") + -tūdō (noun-forming suffix indicating state or condition). Unlike "darkness" (which refers broadly to the absence of light) or "ebon" (which suggests a poetic, gleaming black), nigritude is the unadorned fact of blackness itself. It is the ink pooling in a well, the obsidian arrowhead glinting under midday sun, the crow’s wing folded against a snowbank—a stark and absolute presence, neither metaphor nor absence, but a thing entire.