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YELLOWNESS

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Yellow color or pigment; the chromatic color resembling the hue of sunflowers or ripe lemons

Synonyms:

yellow; yellowness

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("yellowness" 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 "yellowness"):

canary; canary yellow (a moderate yellow with a greenish tinge)

amber; gold (a deep yellow color)

brownish yellow (a yellow color of low lightness with a brownish tinge)

gamboge; lemon; lemon yellow; maize (a strong yellow color)

old gold (a dark yellow)

orange yellow; saffron (a shade of yellow tinged with orange)

pale yellow; straw; wheat (a variable yellow tint; dull yellow, often diluted with white)

greenish yellow (a shade of yellow tinged with green)

Derivation:

yellow (of the color intermediate between green and orange in the color spectrum; of something resembling the color of an egg yolk)

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