white-out

WYTE-owt

The condition where snow, cloud, and blizzard dissolve the world into depthless pallor — no horizon, no shadow, no up or down. A white-out removes every visual reference point. You cannot tell ground from sky. People have walked off cliffs.
Etymology
English compound: white + out. Arctic and mountaineering term.
 ice/snow  weather
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