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ORANGENESS

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Orange color or pigment; any of a range of colors between red and yellow

Synonyms:

orange; orangeness

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

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

chromatic color; chromatic colour; spectral color; spectral colour (a color that has hue)

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

reddish orange (an orange color closer to red than to yellow)

Derivation:

orange (of the color between red and yellow; similar to the color of a ripe orange)

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