colourless
adjective
without colour
colourlessness
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a word derived from
colourless.
Example Sentences
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In the cold colourlessness they were delicate and feeble as the faces of children, rosy and soft under the splattering of mud and the shagginess of unshaven beards.
From One Man's Initiation—1917 by John Dos Passos
At the breakfast table Mr. Clifton noticed the colourlessness of his pupil's face, but kindly abstained from any allusion to it.
From Macaria by Augusta J. (Augusta Jane) Evans
The years slipped by, one by one, so like each other in their colourlessness that I forgot to take account of them.
From Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1909 to 1922 by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery
The sky was clear as a bell, of a deep, rich, ultramarine tint in the zenith; shading off by imperceptible gradations to a soft, warm colourlessness at the horizon.
From The First Mate The Story of a Strange Cruise by Edward S. Hodgson
Odo suspected a certain colourlessness in the life she depicted.
From The Valley of Decision by Edith Wharton
