colourlessnesscolorlessnessn.
/ˈkʌlələsnəs/, U.S. /ˈkələrləsnəs/ The quality or condition of being colourless (in various senses).
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the world > matter > colour > state or mode of having colour > absence of colour > [noun]
uncolouredness1660
colourlessness1672
achromatism1797
achromaticity1821
blankness1850
huelessness1861
mirage1927
1672 R. Boyle Ess. Origine & Virtues Gems ii. 120 The colourlesness of Crystal.
1685 R. Boyle Short Mem. Hist. Mineral Waters 94 Salts that resemble it in transparency, colourlesness, and Figure.
1854 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 76 551 We are too fond of paleness, colourlessness, in our interiors.
1890 Publishers' Weekly 25 Jan. 145/2 In reviewing the imaginative literature of the year, its colorlessness—we find no better word—seems its chief characteristic.
1922 G. Zilboorg tr. L. Andreyev He who gets Slapped Introd. ix Chekhov had begun to demonstrate before the reader the gloom and colourlessness of Russian life.
1963 Biol. Bull. 125 466 The starch solution..showed a change from blue through shades of mauve and pink to colorlessness.
1997 Afr. Amer. Rev. 31 46/1 The pall-like mist that shrouds the scenery, the latter's uniform colorlessness.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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