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INKINESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does inkiness mean?
• INKINESS (noun)
The noun INKINESS has 1 sense:
1. the quality or state of the achromatic color of least lightness (bearing the least resemblance to white)
Familiarity information: INKINESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The quality or state of the achromatic color of least lightness (bearing the least resemblance to white)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
Hypernyms ("inkiness" 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 "inkiness"):
coal black; ebony; jet black; pitch black; sable; soot black (a very dark black)
Derivation:
inky (of the color of black ink)
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