ivoriness

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noun

Quality of being ivory in colour.

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Meanings

nounivoriness (uncountable)
  1. uncountableQuality of being ivory in colour.

    What interested men in Felicia was the warm ivoriness of her, faintly flushed with rose; the gray, greeny-blue eyes mysterious as opals; the small proud head shaped as were Greek heads of old[…]

    1929, Hearst's International Combined with Cosmopolitan

Origin

From ivory + -ness.

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APA

ivoriness. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ivoriness

MLA

“ivoriness.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ivoriness. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “ivoriness,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ivoriness.

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