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    GRAYNESS

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     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    A neutral achromatic color midway between white and blackplay

    Synonyms:

    gray; grayness; grey; greyness

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

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

    achromatic color; achromatic colour (a color lacking hue; white or grey or black)

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

    ash gray; ash grey; silver; silver gray; silver grey (a light shade of grey)

    charcoal; charcoal gray; charcoal grey; oxford gray; oxford grey (a very dark grey color)

    dapple-gray; dapple-grey; dappled-gray; dappled-grey (grey with a mottled pattern of darker grey markings)

    iron-gray; iron-grey (the color of freshly broken cast iron)

    tattletale gray; tattletale grey (a greyish white)

    Davy's gray; Davy's grey; iron blue; steel gray; steel grey (slightly purplish or bluish dark grey)

    Derivation:

    gray (of an achromatic color of any lightness intermediate between the extremes of white and black)

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