noncolor

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

non- +‎ color

Noun

noncolor (plural noncolors)

  1. That which is not a color.
    • 1989, Patricia Sloane, The visual nature of color:
      Because of the overwhelming consensus, a test for ability to separate the names of colors from those of noncolors would be fatuous (figure 5-1). Few test takers will achieve less than perfect scores.
    • 2007 October 7, Liesl Schillinger, “Books of Style”, in New York Times‎:
      Fake Steve Jobs is a perfectionist who is as insistent that his chai latte be served at 165 degrees as that his iMacs, iPods and iPhones be exactly the right noncolor.
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