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