Difference between Yellow and Yellowness

What is the difference between Yellow and Yellowness?

Yellow as a noun is the colour of gold or butter; the colour obtained by mixing green and red light, or by subtracting blue from white light. while Yellowness as a noun is the state or quality of being yellow.

Yellow

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Having yellow as its colour. Lacking courage. Characterized by sensationalism, lurid content, and doubtful accuracy.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: The colour of gold or butter; the colour obtained by mixing green and red light, or by subtracting blue from white light. One of the colour balls used in snooker with a value of 2 points.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To become yellow or more yellow. To cause to become yellow or more yellow.

Example sentence: Try to forget what objects you have before you - a tree, a house, a field, or whatever. Merely think, 'Here is a little square of blue, here an oblong of pink, here a streak of yellow,' and paint it just as it looks to you, the exact color and shape, until it gives you your own impression of the scene before you.

Yellowness

Part of speech: noun

Definition: The state or quality of being yellow.The result or product of being yellow.

We hope you now know whether to use Yellow or Yellowness in your sentence.

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