cleanness vs whiteness

cleanness and whiteness both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
cleanness	Yes	No	No	No
whiteness	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, whiteness is a hypernym of cleanness; that is, whiteness is a word with a broader meaning than cleanness:

cleanness: without moral defects
whiteness: the state of being unsullied by sin or moral wrong; lacking a knowledge of evil

Other hypernyms of cleanness include innocence, pureness, purity, sinlessness.

cleanness (noun)	whiteness (noun)
the state of being clean; without dirt or other impurities	the quality or state of the achromatic color of greatest lightness (bearing the least resemblance to black)
without moral defects	lightness or fairness of complexion
	the state of being unsullied by sin or moral wrong; lacking a knowledge of evil