BROWNNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does brownness mean? 

• BROWNNESS (noun)
  The noun BROWNNESS has 1 sense:

1. an orange of low brightness and saturation

  Familiarity information: BROWNNESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BROWNNESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An orange of low brightness and saturation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

brown; brownness

Hypernyms ("brownness" 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 "brownness"):

Vandyke brown (a moderate brown color)

chestnut (the brown color of chestnuts)

burnt umber; chocolate; coffee; deep brown; umber (a medium brown to dark-brown color)

hazel (a shade of brown that is yellowish or reddish; it is a greenish shade of brown when used to describe the color of someone's eyes)

light brown (a brown that is light but unsaturated)

mocha (a dark brown color)

burnt sienna; mahogany; reddish brown; sepia; Venetian red (a shade of brown with a tinge of red)

buff; caramel; caramel brown; raw sienna; yellowish brown (a medium to dark tan color)

puce (a color varying from dark purplish brown to dark red)

olive brown (a shade of brown tinged with green)

taupe (a greyish brown)

Derivation:

brown (of a color similar to that of wood or earth)

 Context examples 

The fore-feet of the Yahoo differed from my hands in nothing else but the length of the nails, the coarseness and brownness of the palms, and the hairiness on the backs.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)