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PURPLENESS

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A purple color or pigment

Synonyms:

purple; purpleness

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

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)

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