YELLOWNESS

• YELLOWNESS (noun)
  The noun YELLOWNESS has 1 sense:

1. yellow color or pigment; the chromatic color resembling the hue of sunflowers or ripe lemons

  Familiarity information: YELLOWNESS used as a noun is very rare.

• YELLOWNESS (noun)

Meaning:

Yellow color or pigment; the chromatic color resembling the hue of sunflowers or ripe lemons

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

yellow; yellowness

Hypernyms ("yellowness" is a kind of...):

chromatic color; chromatic colour; spectral color; spectral colour (a color that has hue)

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

canary; canary yellow (a moderate yellow with a greenish tinge)

amber; gold (a deep yellow color)

brownish yellow (a yellow color of low lightness with a brownish tinge)

gamboge; lemon; lemon yellow; maize (a strong yellow color)

old gold (a dark yellow)

orange yellow; saffron (a shade of yellow tinged with orange)

pale yellow; straw (a yellow tint; yellow diluted with white)

greenish yellow (a shade of yellow tinged with green)