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COLORLESSNESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does colorlessness mean?
• COLORLESSNESS (noun)
The noun COLORLESSNESS has 1 sense:
1. the visual property of being without chromatic color
Familiarity information: COLORLESSNESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The visual property of being without chromatic color
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
achromaticity; achromatism; colorlessness; colourlessness
Hypernyms ("colorlessness" is a kind of...):
visual property (an attribute of vision)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "colorlessness"):
achromia (an absence of normal pigmentation especially in the skin (as in albinism) or in red blood cells)
Antonym:
color (a visual attribute of things that results from the light they emit or transmit or reflect)
Derivation:
colorless (weak in color; not colorful)
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