SKIN COLOR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does skin color mean? 

• SKIN COLOR (noun)
  The noun SKIN COLOR has 1 sense:

1. the coloring of a person's face

  Familiarity information: SKIN COLOR used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SKIN COLOR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The coloring of a person's face

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

complexion; skin color; skin colour

Hypernyms ("skin color" is a kind of...):

color; coloring; colour; colouring (a visual attribute of things that results from the light they emit or transmit or reflect)

Attribute:

blond; blonde; light-haired (being or having light colored skin and hair and usually blue or grey eyes)

brunet; brunette (marked by dark or relatively dark pigmentation of hair or skin or eyes)

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

blondness; fairness; paleness (the property of having a naturally light complexion)

rosiness; ruddiness (a healthy reddish complexion)

achromasia; lividity; lividness; luridness; paleness; pallidness; pallor; wanness (unnatural lack of color in the skin (as from bruising or sickness or emotional distress))

sallowness (a sickly yellowish skin color)

tawniness (the quality or state of being the color of tanned leather)

darkness; duskiness; swarthiness (a swarthy complexion)

whiteness (lightness or fairness of complexion)

 Context examples 

Visual stimuli included objects that have a characteristic color (oranges, strawberries, tomatoes), objects with arbitrary color (Legos, toy cars), and in-person actors representing a diversity of skin colors.

(Rosy health and sickly green: color associations play robust role in reading faces, National Institutes of Health)

Benzo(a)pyrene can cause a skin rash, a burning feeling, skin color changes, warts, and bronchitis.

(Benzo(a)pyrene, NCI Dictionary)

A question about whether an individual is or has been bothered by their jaundice or yellow skin color.

(Bothered by Jaundice or Yellow Skin Color, NCI Thesaurus)

The creature's skin color temporarily changes thanks to this mechanism.

(Octopuses can dream, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Researchers studying genes that contribute to skin color for the last hundred years have focused on analyzing differences among European populations.

(New regions of the human genome linked to skin color variation in some African populations, National Institutes of Health)

We are interested in recent human evolution and what explains the evident variation in things like skin color, hair color and the face itself, said Mark D. Shriver, professor of anthropology, Penn State.

(Nose Form Was Shaped by Climate, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

These areas are breathing, muscle tone, pulse rate, reflex irritability and skin color.

(Apgar Score, NCI Thesaurus)

The result of observation and overall assessment of a subject's outward aspect including appearance and movements; for example, in a human newborn general appearance includes skin color and tone, range of motion, and spontaneous movements.

(General Appearance, NCI Thesaurus)

Scientists from The Chinese University of Hong Kong have also developed an atrial fibrillation-detection app, although it utilizes the phone's camera to analyze subtle changes in patients' facial skin color, which are an indicator of fluctuations in their heart rate.

(Heart-Checking App May Help Prevent Strokes, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The test is administered at one and five minutes after birth and allows for the assignation of numerical values between zero and two for specific observations regarding skin color, pulse rate, reflex irritability, muscle tone and breathing.

(Apgar Test, NCI Thesaurus)