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VIVIDNESS

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Chromatic purity: freedom from dilution with white and hence vivid in hue

Synonyms:

chroma; intensity; saturation; vividness

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

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

color property (an attribute of color)

Holonyms ("vividness" is a substance of...):

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

Derivation:

vivid ((of color) having the highest saturation)

vivid (having strong or striking color)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Interest and variety and intensity

Example:

the characters were delineated with exceptional vividness

Synonyms:

color; colour; vividness

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

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

interest; interestingness (the power of attracting or holding one's attention (because it is unusual or exciting etc.))

Attribute:

colorful; colourful (having much or varied color)

colorless; colourless (weak in color; not colorful)

Derivation:

vivid (having the clarity and freshness of immediate experience)

vivid (evoking lifelike images within the mind)

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