PURPLENESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does purpleness mean? 

• PURPLENESS (noun)
  The noun PURPLENESS has 1 sense:

1. a purple color or pigment

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• PURPLENESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A purple color or pigment

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

purple; purpleness

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

chromatic color; chromatic colour; spectral color; spectral colour (a color that has hue)

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

lavender (a pale purple color)

mauve (a moderate purple)

reddish purple; royal purple (a shade of purple tinged with red)

reddish blue; violet (a variable color that lies beyond blue in the spectrum)

Derivation:

purple (of a color intermediate between red and blue)