The visual property of being without chromatic color.
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There was something about its very colourlessness which made it sound oracular.
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He had a steely colourlessness, and a steely pliability, and a steely strength.
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She was elderly, tall, and harshly thin, with a hard colourlessness of face.
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The brown flecks in the eyes seemed to spread and engulf the surrounding colourlessness.
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Odo suspected a certain colourlessness in the life she depicted.
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He will find that he has not given exactly the proper curves to secure achromatism.
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This artifice is specially adopted in objectives for astronomical photography (''pure actinic achromatism'').
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Soc., 1878), the most suitable for visual instruments (''optical achromatism,').
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The absence of this error is termed achromatism, and an optical system so corrected is termed achromatic.
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As the diameter of the lens was so small in comparison with its focal length, its want of achromatism was inappreciable.
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Her sheeny hair and vivid makeup were dazzling against the colorlessness of the room.
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She was clothed in velvet, which gave to her cheek and brow the colorlessness of marble.
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The leached colorlessness, the depression in the forehead.
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He exhaled noisily, letting the congregation know that he was sorry to fail them with his colorlessness.
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She looked very beautiful in her unconfined gown, the red tone heightening the creamy colorlessness of her face.