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GRAYNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does grayness mean? 

GRAYNESS (noun)
  The noun GRAYNESS has 1 sense:

1. a neutral achromatic color midway between white and blackplay

  Familiarity information: GRAYNESS used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


GRAYNESS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A neutral achromatic color midway between white and black

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

gray; grayness; grey; greyness

Hypernyms ("grayness" is a kind of...):

achromatic color; achromatic colour (a color lacking hue; white or grey or black)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "grayness"):

ash gray; ash grey; silver; silver gray; silver grey (a light shade of grey)

charcoal; charcoal gray; charcoal grey; oxford gray; oxford grey (a very dark grey color)

dapple-gray; dapple-grey; dappled-gray; dappled-grey (grey with a mottled pattern of darker grey markings)

iron-gray; iron-grey (the color of freshly broken cast iron)

tattletale gray; tattletale grey (a greyish white)

Davy's gray; Davy's grey; iron blue; steel gray; steel grey (slightly purplish or bluish dark grey)

Derivation:

gray (of an achromatic color of any lightness intermediate between the extremes of white and black)


 Context examples 


The question was answered for him, and so oppressed was he by the grayness of life that he forgot the tentative proposition she had made for him to go to work.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)



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