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n. - The visual property of being without chromatic tints.

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Usage examples (37)
  • There was something about its very colourlessness which made it sound oracular.
  • Some vision, yes; of shapelessness, of colourlessness, of the unlit, and therefore of the sizeless.
  • Such was the colour - or perhaps colourlessness - of her eyes that they made her seem at once blind and all-seeing.
  • From this time the correspondence is marked by an increasing bitterness on my side and a level colourlessness on his.
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