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octarine

octarine noun: the color of magic, a notional extra color distinct from the colors of the rainbow / normal visible light spectrum, which is said (chiefly in certain fiction but also by some occultists) to be visible to users of magic.

Noun

octarine (uncountable)

  1. The color of magic, a notional extra color distinct from the colors of the rainbow / normal visible light spectrum, which is said (chiefly in certain fiction but also by some occultists) to be visible to users of magic.
    • […] colors like octarine, the eighth color, an elusive spectral mix that's hard to describe and impossible to perceive. That's the thing about color. Try describing a rainbow or a sunset to a blind person or ask a synesthete[…]2010 January 14, Peter Morville, Jeffery Callender, Search Patterns: Design for Discovery, "O'Reilly Media, Inc.", →ISBN, page 13
    • Back in ScienceFictionaLand, octarine is the color of magic, an animating force in the Discworld series by Terry Pratchett. A fluorescent, greenish-yellow purple, octarine can only be detected by wizards and cats.2013 September 17, Jude Stewart, ROY G. BIV: An Exceedingly Surprising Book About Color, Bloomsbury Publishing USA, →ISBN, page 129

Origin of octarine

See octa-, -ine. Coined by author Terry Pratchett for his Discworld series.

Questions about octarine

What does octarine mean?
Octarine means the color of magic, a notional extra color distinct from the colors of the rainbow / normal visible light spectrum, which is said (chiefly in certain fiction but also by some occultists) to be visible to users of magic.
What part of speech is octarine?
Octarine is a noun.

Words near octarine in the dictionary

  1. octarchies
  2. octarchy
  3. octarepeat
  4. octarepeats
  5. octarhodium
  6. octarine
  7. octarius
  8. octaroon
  9. octaroons
  10. octarticulate
  11. octary

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