Difference between Albescent and White

Albescent

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Becoming white or whitish; moderately white.

White

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Bright and colourless; reflecting equal quantities of all frequencies of visible light.Of Caucasian race.Containing cream, milk or creamer.The standard denomination of the playing pieces of a board game deemed to belong to the white set, no matter what the actual colour.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: The color/colour of snow or milk; the colour of light containing equal amounts of all visible wavelengths.A Caucasian person.A European person.Street name for cocaine.The albumen of bird eggs (egg white).The sclera, white of the eye.A common name for the Pieris genus of butterflies.The cue ball in cue games.

Example sentence: Blue, green, grey, white, or black; smooth, ruffled, or mountainous; that ocean is not silent.