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Meaning of "colourlessness" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF COLOURLESSNESS

colourlessness  [ˈkʌlələsnəs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF COLOURLESSNESS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Colourlessness is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES COLOURLESSNESS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of colourlessness in the English dictionary

The definition of colourlessness in the dictionary is the condition of being devoid of colour.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH COLOURLESSNESS


airlessness
ˈɛələsnəs
anomalousness
əˈnɒmələsnəs
cheerlessness
ˈtʃɪələsnəs
colorlessness
ˈkʌlələsnəs
endlessness
ˈɛndləsnəs
fatherlessness
ˈfɑːðələsnəs
featurelessness
ˈfiːtʃələsnəs
flawlessness
ˈflɔːləsnəs
futurelessness
ˈfjuːtʃələsnəs
heedlessness
ˈhiːdləsnəs
humorlessness
ˈhjuːmələsnəs
humourlessness
ˈhjuːmələsnəs
jealousness
ˈdʒɛləsnəs
marvellousness
ˈmɑːvələsnəs
meaninglessness
ˈmiːnɪŋləsnəs
peerlessness
ˈpɪələsnəs
perilousness
ˈpɛrələsnəs
scandalousness
ˈskændələsnəs
statelessness
ˈsteɪtləsnəs
tirelessness
ˈtaɪələsnəs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE COLOURLESSNESS

colouring
colouring book
colourisation
colourise
colouriser
colourist
colouristic
colouristically
colourization
colourize
colourizer
colourless
colourlessly
colourman
colourmen
colourpoint cat
colours
colourwash
colourway
coloury

WORDS THAT END LIKE COLOURLESSNESS

biliousness
business
callousness
carelessness
consciousness
deliciousness
deviousness
helplessness
hilariousness
homelessness
hopelessness
lawlessness
nervousness
obviousness
preciousness
restlessness
ridiculousness
righteousness
seriousness
unconsciousness
viciousness

Synonyms and antonyms of colourlessness in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «colourlessness» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF COLOURLESSNESS

Find out the translation of colourlessness to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of colourlessness from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «colourlessness» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

colourlessness
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

colourlessness
570 millions of speakers

English

colourlessness
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

colourlessness
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

colourlessness
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

безцветие
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

colourlessness
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

colourlessness
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

grisaille
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Colourlessness
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Farblosigkeit
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

colourlessness
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

colourlessness
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Tanpa warna
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

colourlessness
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

colourlessness
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

रंगहीनता
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

renksizliği
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

mancanza di colore
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

colourlessness
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

безцветіе
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

colourlessness
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

colourlessness
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

colourlessness
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

colourlessness
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

colourlessness
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of colourlessness

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «COLOURLESSNESS»

The term «colourlessness» is used very little and occupies the 192.764 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «COLOURLESSNESS» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «colourlessness» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «colourlessness» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about colourlessness

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «COLOURLESSNESS»

Discover the use of colourlessness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to colourlessness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The last plague of Egypt, the German gladiators, Great king ...
Colourlessness. 97. THE. SOUND. WITHOUT. A. NAME. LONG-DRAWN surging of the restless seas! O sound without a name, too mighty for Language to speak, or human tongue to frame ! The Mind of Him alone who listens to The ...
Joseph Benjamin McCaul, 1880
2
The London, Edinburgh and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and ...
... an angle of 45° between the original plane of polarization and that of the optical axis of the mica. The passage through absolute colourlessness takes place when the polarizing plates form an angle of 45°. That special shade of colour which, ...
3
The Philosophical Magazine
... an angle of 45° between the original plane of polarization and that of the optical axis of the mica. The passage through absolute colourlessness takes place when the polarizing plates form an angle of 45°. That special shade of colour which, ...
4
The Four Masters and the Magic Ball
“The colourlessness took away my powers. Even if we could teleport we wouldn't make be able to get past that point,” Jackie corrected herself. “What about our boards?” Dane said, and I saw him glance back to see ifthe colourlessness had ...
K.R. Hosein, 2013
5
The Illustrated Canon of Chen Family Taijiquan
Hence what exists returns to non-existence; what is known as colour is actually colourlessness; what is known as colourlessness is colour; and so coloured colourlessness is the same as colourless colour. The empty circle conveys all these ...
Chen Xin
6
Wittgenstein's (Misunderstood) Religious Thought
by pointing to an item in the environment” (Kerr 1986, 154).16 On the flip-side, it is not possible to conceive of a state of colourlessness in a material world, to imagine a material universe absolutely bereft of colour. No substantially meaningful ...
Earl Stanley B. Fronda, 2010
7
A dictionary of arts, manufactures, and mines: containing a ...
Its composition is nearly represented by the formula (Al F) S1 + 6 (K C M) S», or more simply (K C Al) S". Properties of Glass, Transparence, Colourlessness. — Transparence and colourlessness are the first properties of glass : to obtain them,  ...
Andrew Ure, Robert Hunt, 1863
8
Blackwood's Edinburgh magazine
But universal colourlessness, universal silence, universal impalpability, universal tastelessness, and so forth, are just as much phenomena requiring, in thought, the presence of an ideal percipient endowed with sight and hearing and taste ...
9
Philosophical Works of the Late James Frederick Ferrier: ...
Let us say that, man being annihilated, there would no longer be any external universe ; that is to say, that there would be universal colourlessness, universal silence, universal impalpability, universal tastelessness, and so forth. But universal ...
James Frederick Ferrier, Sir Alexander Grant, Edmund Law Lushington, 1883
10
Blackwood's Magazine
But universal colourlessness, universal silence, universal impalpability, universal tastelessness, and so forth, are just as much phenomena requiring, in thought, the presence of an ideal percipient endowed with sight and hearing and taste ...

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «COLOURLESSNESS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term colourlessness is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Bad politics is shrinking our lives
... poetry, or often of anything resembling genuine human speech, the colourlessness that has characterised the UK general election campaign. «Newsweek - Europe, May 15»
2
Jinnah of Modern India
... the narcissus laments its colourlessness; with great difficulty the one with true vision is born in the garden). Akbar S Ahmed, author of Jinnah, ... «The New Indian Express, Feb 15»
3
At Tate Britain
... not the only critic to claim to have been physically impaired when confronted by late Turner, or disappointed by the relative colourlessness of ... «London Review of Books, Dec 14»
4
BOOKS: Tales of the Metric System
For what proved the defining factor in the changeover is the proclamation of "the colourlessness and inhuman fragrance of money". «BDlive, Dec 14»
5
How to buy diamonds
Stones are graded to a precise scale starting from “D”, the highest rating of colourlessness, through the alphabet to “Z”, the most yellowed of white diamonds. «Vogue Australia, Nov 14»
6
Luxottica: losing 2 CEOs in 40 days is carelessness
But Mr Cavorta's relative colourlessness appears not to have helped him reach agreement on his role, or the company's way forward, with ... «Financial Times, Oct 14»
7
Book review – Colourless Tsukuru Tazaki
His colourlessness, he believed, was evident in his character. He was the one that did not stand out. He thought of himself as boring and ... «The Malaysian Insider, Sep 14»
8
Give and take in Hollywood's version of Lois Lowry's The Giver
Much of the world of The Giver, even its bleached colourlessness, was inspired by Lowry's childhood spent on military bases with her career ... «Sydney Morning Herald, Sep 14»
9
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage, by Haruki …
... nickname comes from the fact that his four high school friends all had names which referred to colours and he did not; his colourlessness was ... «National Post, Aug 14»
10
Sketch: Michael Gove suffers in silence
Of course, this type of colourlessness is probably one of the reasons she got the job. Mr Gove's irrepressible magniloquence was not to ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jul 14»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Colourlessness [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/colourlessness>. May 2024 ».
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