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Definition of Chromatism

1. Noun. Hallucinatory perception of colored lights.

Definition of Chromatism

1. n. The state of being colored, as in the case of images formed by a lens.

Definition of Chromatism

1. Noun. The state of being coloured ¹

2. Noun. (optics) chromatic aberration ¹

3. Noun. (psychology) chromaesthesia ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Medical Definition of Chromatism

1. 1. Abnormal pigmentation. Synonym: chromatic aberration. Origin: G. Chroma, colour (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Chromatism

Literary usage of Chromatism

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Vegetable Teratology: An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual by Maxwell Tylden Masters (1869)
"chromatism.—This term is here intended to apply specially to those cases in which any organ of a plant assumes a colour ..."

2. Vegetable Teratology: An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual by Maxwell Tylden Masters (1869)
"chromatism.—This term is here intended to apply specially to those cases in which any organ of a plant assumes a colour approximating to that of the petals, ..."

3. Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily Death by Frederic William Henry Myers (1903)
"He projected his chromatism into this circle. But the circle was, in fact, smaller than his chromatic circle, and a ring of orange was made by the ..."

4. Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily Death by Frederic William Henry Myers (1903)
"He projected his chromatism into this circle. But the circle was, in fact, ... We had found the exact site of the chromatism and could now measure it to a ..."

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