GREYNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does greyness mean? 

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

1. a neutral achromatic color midway between white and black

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GREYNESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A neutral achromatic color midway between white and black

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

gray; grayness; grey; greyness

Hypernyms ("greyness" is a kind of...):

achromatic color; achromatic colour (a color lacking hue; white or grey or black)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "greyness"):

ash gray; ash grey; silver; silver gray; silver grey (a light shade of grey)

charcoal; charcoal gray; charcoal grey; oxford gray; oxford grey (a very dark grey color)

dapple-gray; dapple-grey; dappled-gray; dappled-grey (grey with a mottled pattern of darker grey markings)

iron-gray; iron-grey (the color of freshly broken cast iron)

tattletale gray; tattletale grey (a greyish white)

Davy's gray; Davy's grey; iron blue; steel gray; steel grey (slightly purplish or bluish dark grey)

Derivation:

grey (of an achromatic color of any lightness intermediate between the extremes of white and black)

 Context examples 

Sometimes, as the road was cut through the pine woods that seemed in the darkness to be closing down upon us, great masses of greyness, which here and there bestrewed the trees, produced a peculiarly weird and solemn effect, which carried on the thoughts and grim fancies engendered earlier in the evening, when the falling sunset threw into strange relief the ghost-like clouds which amongst the Carpathians seem to wind ceaselessly through the valleys.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)