color constancy

1. 1.

   the tendency for a color to look the same under widely different viewing conditions

   Synonymscolour constancy

   Broaderconstancy

Questions about color constancy

What does color constancy mean?

color constancy means "the tendency for a color to look the same under widely different viewing conditions".

What is another word for color constancy?

Close synonyms include colour constancy. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is color constancy a common word?

color constancy is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.