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INKINESS

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The quality or state of the achromatic color of least lightness (bearing the least resemblance to white)

Synonyms:

black; blackness; inkiness

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("inkiness" is a kind of...):

achromatic color; achromatic colour (a color lacking hue; white or grey or black)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "inkiness"):

coal black; ebony; jet black; pitch black; sable; soot black (a very dark black)

Derivation:

inky (of the color of black ink)

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