Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or property of being yellowish.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The property of having a slight or moderate shade of
yellow , usuallytinged with othercolours .
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Examples
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Still, by relating those colours he has seen to each other he might be able to develop an understanding of the colourspace inside his head, an understanding that the reddishness of certain browns is a constituent feature as is the yellowishness of other browns, the bluishness of certain greys.
Archive 2009-02-01 Hal Duncan 2009
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Still, by relating those colours he has seen to each other he might be able to develop an understanding of the colourspace inside his head, an understanding that the reddishness of certain browns is a constituent feature as is the yellowishness of other browns, the bluishness of certain greys.
Creative Control - Part 5 Hal Duncan 2009
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I know your pooch's urine has an incredibly artistic yellowishness to it, and the muscle definition when he lifts his leg is Shwarzenegger-like, but I'm eating my freakin' lunch and don't want to see it.
Andy Ostroy: Some Tough Love for Dog Owners Andy Ostroy 2011
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They had lost now almost entirely the yellowishness, metal look, and seemed to have more the quality of a gray opaque glass, or marble.
The Girl in the Golden Atom Ray Cummings 1922
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