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COLORLESSNESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The visual property of being without chromatic color
Synonyms:
achromaticity; achromatism; colorlessness; colourlessness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
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)