1. (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Color.

2. (n.) The act of applying color to; also, that which produces color.

3. (n.) Change of appearance as by addition of color; appearance; show; disguise; misrepresentation.

Klangfarbe abstractionism achromatism acrylic painting acting affectation affective meaning appearance attitudinizing bearing bloom bluff bluffing blush blushing cast cheating chromatic chromatism chromism chromogen clang color coat coat of paint coating cold color color balance color filter color gelatin color harmony color printing color scheme colorant coloration colorific coloring complexion confabulation connotation consequence cool crimsoning dead-color deception decorator color deformation delusion denotation dichromatic disguise dissemblance dissembling dissimulation distemper distortion drier drift dye dyeing dyestuff effect embellishment emblazonry encaustic cerography encaustic painting equivocation erubescent essence exaggeration expressionism extension exterior paint facade face fakery faking false air false coloring false front false show false swearing falsification falsifying falsity feigning feint finger painting flat coat flat wash floor enamel flower painting flush flushing force four-flushing fraud fresco painting front garbling genre painting gilt gist gloss glow glowing gouache grammatical meaning grisaille ground guise harmonious hectic hectic flush hue humbug humbuggery hyperbole idea illumination illustration impact impasto implication import imposture inaccuracy injustice intension interior paint key lexical meaning literal meaning lithography litotes mantling many-colored masquerade matching meaning medium medley meretriciousness miscoloring misconstruction misdrawing mispainting misquotation misreport misrepresentation misstatement misteaching monochromatic monochrome monochromic motley mural painting natural color nonrealism oil painting opaque color ostentation outward show overdrawing overstatement overtone paint painting pallor parti-colored perjury pertinence perversion picturization pigment pigmentary pigmentation pith playacting point polychromatic portraiture pose posing poster painting posture practical consequence pretense pretension pretext prevarication prime coat primer priming prismatic pudency pudicity purport put-on rainbow range of meaning real meaning reddening reference referent relation relevance representation rubefacient rubescence rubescent rubificative rufescence scope seeming semantic cluster semantic field semblance sense shade sham show significance signification significatum signifie simulacrum simulation skin color slanting span of meaning speciousness spectral spirit stain staining straining structural meaning substance suffusion sum sum and substance symbolic meaning tempera tenor the brush thinner timbre tinct tinction tinctorial tincture tinge tingent