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The appearance of objects described in terms of a person's perception of their hue and lightness, brightness, and saturation.

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Usage examples (40)
  • The color of that car is very strange.
  • His political ideas color his lectures
  • The Puritan Period was lacking in color
  • color film
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  • A choler is an anger or rage, cholera is a disease of the gastrointestinal system, a collar is a part of the clothing around the neck, color is the light waves of the spectrum reflected on the eye as red, green, blue, and so on.
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