yellow
noun
a color like that of egg yolk, ripe lemons, etc.; the primary color between green and orange in the visible spectrum, an effect of light with a wavelength between 570 and 590 nanometers.
yellowness
-
a word derived from
yellow.
Example Sentences
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The wax’s yellowness contrasts the white walls and gray floor, but only slightly.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 12, 2022
At the same time, both Islamic and Christian philosophers followed Aristotle in defining substances according to bundles of properties: hardness, yellowness and heaviness, for instance, in the case of gold.
From Nature ● Apr. 28, 2020
The collection’s center of gravity isn’t yellowness, and it isn’t folk, a word conveying more easy, warm regard for humans in the plural than he can really muster.
From Slate ● Nov. 5, 2018
Dr. Richard Gilroy, of Intermountain Medical Center, said, “We had three perfect storms. We had a deteriorating patient with fluid, a deteriorating patient with yellowness and lastly we had a marker suggesting he had cancer.”
From Washington Times ● Jan. 20, 2017
“My body became highly impregnated with the contagion. My eyes were yellow, and sometimes a yellowness was perceptible in my face,” he noted.
From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy
