Difference between Fuchsia and Magenta

What is the difference between Fuchsia and Magenta?

Fuchsia as an adjective is (colour) having a purplish-red colour. while Magenta as an adjective is having the colour of fuchsia, fuchsine, light purple.

Fuchsia

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: (colour) having a purplish-red colour.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A popular garden plant, of the genus Fuchsia, of the Onagraceae family, shrubs with red, pink or purple flowers. a purplish-red colour, the color of fuchsin, an aniline dye.

Magenta

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: having the colour of fuchsia, fuchsine, light purple.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A light purple, purplish-red, or pinkish purple colour obtained by mixing red and blue light (thus a secondary colour), but primary in the CMYK colour system used in printing.

We hope you now know whether to use Fuchsia or Magenta in your sentence.

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