pinknessn.
/ˈpɪŋknᵻs/, U.S. /ˈpɪŋknᵻs/ 1. The quality or state of being pink; pink colour.
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the world > matter > colour > named colours > red or redness > [noun] > shades of red > pale red or pink
incarnationa1475
carnation?1533
peach colour1573
maiden's blush1598
maiden blush1600
flesh-colour1611
gridelinc1640
incarnadine1661
pinka1669
peach bloom1716
pompadour1761
rose pink1772
salmon-colour1813
orange-pink1820
peachiness1820
maiden rose1827
pinkiness1828
peach-blow1829
peach1831
pink madder1835
flesh-tint1839
pinkness1840
rose du Barry1847
flesh1852
almond1872
ash of roses1872
nymph-pink1872
rose Pompadour1872
salmon1873
pinkishness1874
mushroom1884
salmon-pink1884
naturelle1887
shell-pink1887
sunrise1890
sultan pink1899
mushroom colour1900
sunblush1925
flesh tone1931
magnolia1963
1840 C. Dickens Master Humphrey's Clock I. 101 A wery smart little shop vith four wax dummies in the winder..vith..uncommon clear eyes, and nostrils of amazin' pinkness.
1894 Daily News 8 June 7/1 Glad to step down from the carriages and restore pinkness to their pretty cheeks.
1948 Life 6 Sept. 73/2 (advt.) This easy Forhan method is famous to curb bleeding gums and help gums be firmer with an attractive rosy pinkness.
1992 Amer. Film Jan. 20/1 By the end of the film, his coloring is a kind of natural pinkness.
2. colloquial. The quality of being politically (somewhat) left-wing. Cf. pink adj.2 5.
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society > authority > rule or government > politics > party politics > groups or attitudes right to left > [noun] > the left > radicalism
radicalism1817
radicality1819
radical left1870
Jacobinism1888
pinkness1918
New Left1955
1918 Times 31 Dec. 7/3 There is no doubt..that he warms to the sight of the Red Flag, diluted or not to some shade of pinkness.
1931 F. L. Allen Only Yesterday iv. 76 The Fighting Quaker's inquisitorial methods..had at least the practical effect of scaring many Reds into a pale pinkness.
2000 Daily Tel. 24 Feb. 33/1 In later years the pinkness of Annan's opinions became tinged with blue.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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