colourlessness

Such was the colour - or perhaps colourlessness - of her eyes that they made her seem at once blind and all-seeing.

Excerpt: Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh 2008

On the subject of his childhood he is brief, but manages in a few words to convey a sense of colourlessness: his family was "traditional Presbyterian"; his education took place at "a dreadful private school"; his parents weren't readers and the school, where "any sort of imagination was seen as rather naughty", didn't encourage an interest in books either.

A life in books: CJ Sansom Sarah Crown 2010

Even when adjusting for education, coloured people are still less likely to be hired than people of colourlessness, and less likely to be promoted.

"Post-racial" US and Canada, Part 1 2008

Even when adjusting for education, coloured people are still less likely to be hired than people of colourlessness, and less likely to be promoted.

Archive 2008-11-01 2008

Even after adjusting for education, people of colour are still less likely to be hired or later promoted than people of colourlessness.

"Post-racial" US and Canada, Part 2 2008

Even after adjusting for education, people of colour are still less likely to be hired or later promoted than people of colourlessness.

Archive 2008-11-01 2008

With all the achromatic clearness, the unromantic colourlessness of the early morning ....

Love and Mr Lewisham Herbert George 2004

She was grey, and her apron, and her dress, and her kerchief, and her hands and her face were all sun-bleached and sun-stained, greyey, bluey, browny, like stones and half-coloured leaves, sunny in their colourlessness.

Twilight in Italy 2003

To their eyes, too, quickened by emotion, it was left to descry the colours in the apparent colourlessness: the upturned earth that showed red, white, puce, gamboge; the blue in the grey of the new leafage; the geranium red of young scrub; the purple-blue depths of the shadows.

Ultima Thule 2003

Some vision, yes; of shapelessness, of colourlessness, of the unlit, and therefore of the sizeless.

The Six Enneads. Plotinus 1952