Difference between Negroid and Black

What is the difference between Negroid and Black?

Negroid as a noun is a person with negroid characteristics. while Black as a noun is the colour/color perceived in the absence of light.

Negroid

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A person with negroid characteristics.

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: having negro features racially. Pertaining to the racial classification of humanity including people indigenous to sub-Saharan Africa and their diaspora in other parts of the world.

Black

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: absorbing all light and reflecting none; dark and colourless.without light.Relating to persons of African descent or (especially in the US) their culture.Bad; evil.Illegitimate, illegal or disgraced.Overcrowded.Lacking cream, milk and creamer.The standard denomination of the playing pieces of a board game deemed to belong to the black set, no matter what the actual colour.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: The colour/color perceived in the absence of light.A black dye, pigment.A pen, pencil, crayon, etc., made of black pigment.A person of African descent.the black: The black ball.The edge of home platea type of firecracker that is really more dark brown in colour.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To make black, to blacken.To apply blacking to something.To boycott something or someone, usually as part of an industrial dispute.

Example sentence: Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.

We hope you now know whether to use Negroid or Black in your sentence.

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