What is another word for discoloration?

Pronunciation: [dɪskˌʌləɹˈe͡ɪʃən] (IPA)

Discoloration refers to a change in color that isn't natural or expected. There are many words in the English language that can be used synonymously with the word "discoloration". Some examples include staining, discoloring, yellowing, browning, tarnishing, fading, darkening, spotting, and rusting. These words are often used in different contexts - for example, staining refers to a colored liquid leaving a mark on a surface, while tarnishing can refer to the rusting or darkening of metal. Regardless, all of these words convey a similar meaning to discoloration, and can be used interchangeably depending on the situation.

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What are the opposite words for discoloration?

Discoloration refers to a change in the natural color of a substance that typically results in an unappealing and undesirable appearance. The opposite of discoloration is therefore "colorfulness" or "vibrancy". These antonyms connote a lively and bright appearance, respectively, that draws attention and captures the eye. Another antonym of discoloration could be "clarification," which means to make something clearer and brighter by removing any impurities or blemishes. In essence, antonyms of discoloration evoke positive associations with vividness, clarity, and purity, which contrast the negative connotations of dullness, blemishes, and impurities associated with discoloration.

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Usage examples for Discoloration

There is generally, also, some discoloration both in the pavement of rock upon which the igneous mass lies, and in the under portions of the latter itself.
"Geology"
James Geikie
Naturally, they would wrinkle some, but any discoloration, if such there was, was gradual and uniform, except in one place-about shoulder high and between me and the radio were some streaks of chocolate running toward the radio.
"Epistles-from-Pap-Letters-from-the-man-known-as-The-Will-Rogers-of-Indiana"
Durham, Andrew Everett
There is a tendency in these forms to a discoloration of the stem where handled or bruised, and this should caution one in comparing such forms with the edible A. rubescens.
"Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc."
George Francis Atkinson

Famous quotes with Discoloration

  • The discoloration is very minimal. I have not turned blue. The extent of skin discoloration is not even remotely near what the news media are saying. It is barely noticeable.
    Stan Jones
  • Oh, dear me, how unspeakably funny and owlishly idiotic and grotesque was that "plagiarism" farce! As if there was much of anything in any human utterance, oral or written, plagiarism! The kernel, the soul — let us go further and say the substance, the bulk, the actual and valuable material of human utterances — is plagiarism. For substantially all ideas are second-hand, consciously and unconsciously drawn from a million outside sources, and daily used by the garnerer with a pride and satisfaction born of the superstition that he originated them; whereas there is not a rag of originality about them anywhere except the little discoloration they get from his mental and moral calibre and his temperament, and which is revealed in characteristics of phrasing. When a great orator makes a great speech you are listening to ten centuries and ten thousand men — but we call it speech, and really some exceedingly small portion of it his. But not enough to signify. It is merely a Waterloo. It is Wellington's battle, in some degree, and we call it his; but there are others that contributed. It takes a thousand men to invent a telegraph, or a steam engine, or a phonograph, or a photograph, or a telephone or any other important thing—and the last man gets the credit and we forget the others. He added his little — that is all he did. These object lessons should us that ninety-nine parts of all things that proceed from the intellect are plagiarisms, pure and simple; and the lesson ought to make us modest. But nothing can do that.
    Mark Twain

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