Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The power of perceiving color; the sense for color.

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Examples

  • Striking becoming poses, sporting smashing shoes, demonstrating the truth of Bill Cunningham's pronouncement, in the Times, that shorts are a fashion trend, clutching a queen's ransom in imaginary pearls, or merely showing the effectiveness of a vibrant color-sense, everyone looked marvelous.

    Michael Henry Adams: Saluting the Met's Gay Gala! 2010

  • Yet, garishness and lack of color-sense aside, the colors did add an extra bit of excitement.

    Xenosaga: The Animation, Volume One Review | The Anime Blog 2007

  • Yet, garishness and lack of color-sense aside, the colors did add an extra bit of excitement.

    Xenosaga: The Animation, Volume One Review | The Anime Blog 2007

  • Heightened color-sense is part of “visionary apperception.”

    Experiencing the Next World Now Michael Grosso 2004

  • Heightened color-sense is part of “visionary apperception.”

    Experiencing the Next World Now Michael Grosso 2004

  • Heightened color-sense is part of “visionary apperception.”

    Experiencing the Next World Now Michael Grosso 2004

  • Surely, each of you must know your own color-sense.

    The House in Good Taste Elsie de Wolfe

  • We have this faculty within us that tells us as surely what is right and what wrong as our color-sense tells us what is red and what green.

    Problems of Conduct Durant Drake

  • All crude and faulty, but showing so much strength, so much individuality and color-sense, that Mr. Hamilton turned the leaves of the little book again and again, and finally laid it down reluctantly, saying:

    Glenloch Girls Grace M. Remick

  • One of the roads in Cleveland requires an examination of its firemen and trainmen six months after employment, as to vision, color-sense, and hearing.

    Wage Earning and Education Rufus Rolla Lutz

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