SKIN COLOUR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does skin colour mean? 

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

1. the coloring of a person's face

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SKIN COLOUR (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 colour" 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 colour"):

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 

By tweaking the ink composition and the sensor design, the team were able to make the ink change colour faster or slower, allowing them to produce different sensors that are tailored to the six different types of skin colour.

(New wristband provides personalised and real-time tracking of UV exposure, University of Granada)