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Definition of Colorlessness
1. Noun. The visual property of being without chromatic color.
Generic synonyms: Visual Property
Specialized synonyms: Achromia
Antonyms: Color
Derivative terms: Colorless, Colourless
Definition of Colorlessness
1. Noun. the state of being colorless ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Colorlessness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Colorlessness
Literary usage of Colorlessness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1890)
"Recently, too, there seems to be In American fiction, no middle point between
the passion of the immoral novel and the commonplace colorlessness of the ..."
2. The Popular Science Monthly (1885)
"I will first ask you, then, to consider that this seeming colorlessness of the
air may be a delusion of our senses, due to habit, which has never given as ..."
3. The Popular Science Monthly by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1885)
"I will first ask you, then, to consider that this seeming colorlessness of the
air may be a delusion of our senses, ..."
4. Methods in Chemical Analysis: Originated Or Developed in the Kent Chemical by Frank Austin Gooch (1912)
"(By adding to excess of n/io Ba(OH)j, boiling with excess of iodine to colorlessness,
and acidifying the residue.) Analyses ofn/io Hydrochloric Acid ..."
5. Intuitive Perception: Presented by a New Philosophy of Natural Realism, in by William Henry Hodge (1903)
"In some of the instances given the colorlessness, or blackness is self-evident.
... In all these the blackness, or colorlessness of the objects is ..."
6. The Atlantic Monthly by Making of America Project (1860)
"The face of my friend with the great Venetian name was like one of Giorgi- one's
pictures, — of that soft and mellow colorlessness that recalls the poet's ..."