Meanings
plural discolourations
- UKalternativecountableuncountableAlternative spelling of discoloration.
[…] one tablet completely sterilises a quart of water, tastelessly, without discolouration or odour.
1938, The Homestead, numbers 1170-1196, page 141 more example
We detect wrinkles, discolourations and pores, and subtract them from a woman’s beauty in ways we don’t if that same face is presented to us as masculine.
2018 March 6, Lili Loofbourow, “The male glance: how we fail to take women’s stories seriously”, in The Guardian
Synonyms & antonyms
nounthe act of changing the natural color of something by making it duller or dingier or unnatural or faded
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
Cite this entry
discolouration. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/discolouration
“discolouration.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/discolouration. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “discolouration,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/discolouration.
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