noncolor

English

Alternative forms

• noncolour

Etymology

Fromnon-+‎color.

Noun

noncolor(pluralnoncolors)

1. That which is not acolor.
   • 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 ofnoncolorswould be fatuous (figure 5-1). Few test takers will achieve less than perfect scores.

   • 2007October 7, Liesl Schillinger, “Books of Style”, inNew York Times‎^[1]:

     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 rightnoncolor.