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INKINESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does inkiness mean? 

INKINESS (noun)
  The noun INKINESS has 1 sense:

1. the quality or state of the achromatic color of least lightness (bearing the least resemblance to white)play

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


 Dictionary entry details 


INKINESS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The quality or state of the achromatic color of least lightness (bearing the least resemblance to white)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

black; blackness; inkiness

Hypernyms ("inkiness" 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 "inkiness"):

coal black; ebony; jet black; pitch black; sable; soot black (a very dark black)

Derivation:

inky (of the color of black ink)


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