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🗣️ Lively expression 🌈 Bright colors
colorfulness

colorfulness

2.5
The quality of having many bright colors
  • noun
  • /ˈkʌlərfəlnəs/
  • US
translation icon : vivididad
  • The most common flowers were dahlias, chrysanthemums, and geraniums, valued for their showy colorfulness.

Examples

  • The literal colorfulness and energy of Black Orpheus did impress North American critics.

    Academic text (1998)

  • Children's drawings often exhibit a charming colorfulness, filled with a variety of bright colors.

  • The artist's work is known for its vibrant colorfulness, drawing in viewers with its bright hues.

  • The garden was a stunning display of colorfulness, featuring flowers of many shades and varieties.

Synonyms

coloring
vscolorfulness
  • US
18 2.0

The colors that appear on something

emphasizes bright, vivid, or varied colors rather than mere appearance
richness
vscolorfulness
1 3.9

A strong, deep color that looks full and bright

adds the idea of many different colors beyond single deep hues
chroma
vscolorfulness
  • Specialized
1 9.3

How strong and pure a color looks

covers bright or many different colors rather than only purity or intensity
coloration
vscolorfulness
  • US
1 5.5

The way an artist chooses and uses colors in a work

refers to the visual quality itself rather than the act of choosing colors
vividness
vscolorfulness
  • Specialized
1 4.1

Strong, bright color that looks clear and not pale

includes such intensity but also the presence of many different colors
vibrant palette
vscolorfulness
4.8

A set of bright, strong colors used in art and design

describes overall quality rather than a chosen set of colors
chromaticism
vscolorfulness
  • Specialized
8.4

To use strong colors in art or design to make it bright and vivid

is the passive quality of having bright or many different colors not the act

Antonyms

drabness
1 5.1

A plain, dull appearance with no bright color or style

How Colorful

vividness
  • Specialized
1 4.1
colorfulness
  • US
2.5
dullness
1 2.2
colorlessness
  • US
7.0

Surface Forms

colorfulness singular
colorfulnesses plural
colourfulnesses plural
colourfulness singular

Morphology

colorfulness = colorful (transparent) = color + ful + ness

The adjective 'colorful' is directly formed from 'color' + '-ful', and '-ness' straightforwardly forms the noun for the quality of having bright or many colors.

Etymology

Colorfulness comes from color ('many bright colors') and the ending -ful ('full of'). So the colorfulness of clothes or paintings is the quality of being full of bright, different colors.