complexion

1. The coloring of a person's face (synset 104984219)
   tells us about:

   • blond, blonde, light-haired - being or having light colored skin and hair and usually blue or grey eyes
   • brunet, brunette - marked by dark or relatively dark pigmentation of hair or skin or eyes
   is a type of: color, coloring, colour, colouring - a visual attribute of things that results from the light they emit or transmit or reflect
   subtypes:

   • blondness, fairness, paleness - the property of having a naturally light complexion
   • rosiness, ruddiness - a healthy reddish complexion
   • achromasia, lividity, lividness, luridness, paleness, pallidness, pallor, wanness - unnatural lack of color in the skin (as from bruising or sickness or emotional distress)
   • sallowness - a sickly yellowish skin color
   • tawniness - the quality or state of being the color of tanned leather
   • darkness, duskiness, swarthiness - a swarthy complexion
   • whiteness - lightness or fairness of complexion
   same as: skin color, skin colour
2. A combination that results from coupling or interlinking (synset 107980938)
   "diphthongs are complexions of vowels"
   is a type of: combination - a collection of things that have been combined; an assemblage of separate parts or qualities
3. A point of view or general attitude or inclination (synset 106220941)
   "he altered the complexion of his times"; "a liberal political complexion"
   is a type of: point of view, stand, standpoint, viewpoint - a mental position from which things are viewed
4. Texture and appearance of the skin of the face (synset 104682550)
   is a type of: appearance, visual aspect - outward or visible aspect of a person or thing
5. (obsolete) a combination of elements (of dryness and warmth or of the four humors) that was once believed to determine a person's health and temperament (synset 104631646)
   domain usage: archaicism, archaism - the use of an archaic expression
   is a type of: nature - the complex of emotional and intellectual attributes that determine a person's characteristic actions and reactions

1. Give a certain color to (synset 200288610)
   "The setting sun complexioned the hills"
   is a type of: tinct, tinge, tint, touch - color lightly

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