noncolor

English

Alternative forms

• noncolour

Etymology

From 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^[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 right noncolor.