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ivoriness

ivoriness noun: quality of being ivory in colour.

Noun

ivoriness (uncountable)

  1. Quality of being ivory in colour.
    • What interested men in Felicia was the warm ivoriness of her, faintly flushed with rose; the gray, greeny-blue eyes mysterious as opals; the small proud head shaped as were Greek heads of old[…]1929, Hearst's International Combined with Cosmopolitan

Origin of ivoriness

From ivory + -ness.

Questions about ivoriness

What does ivoriness mean?
Ivoriness means quality of being ivory in colour.
What part of speech is ivoriness?
Ivoriness is a noun.

Words near ivoriness in the dictionary

  1. ivoride
  2. ivoried
  3. ivories
  4. ivorine
  5. ivorines
  6. ivoriness
  7. ivorist
  8. ivorists
  9. ivoroid
  10. ivory
  11. ivory black

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