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SKIN COLOUR
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The coloring of a person's face
Synonyms:
complexion; skin color; skin colour
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("skin colour" is a kind of...):
color; coloring; colour; colouring (a visual attribute of things that results from the light they emit or transmit or reflect)
Attribute:
blond; blonde; light-haired (being or having light colored skin and hair and usually blue or grey eyes)
brunet; brunette (marked by dark or relatively dark pigmentation of hair or skin or eyes)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "skin colour"):
blondness; fairness; paleness (the property of having a naturally light complexion)
rosiness; ruddiness (a healthy reddish complexion)
achromasia; lividity; lividness; luridness; paleness; pallidness; pallor; wanness (unnatural lack of color in the skin (as from bruising or sickness or emotional distress))
sallowness (a sickly yellowish skin color)
tawniness (the quality or state of being the color of tanned leather)
darkness; duskiness; swarthiness (a swarthy complexion)
whiteness (lightness or fairness of complexion)
