colouration

1. 1.

   the timbre of a musical sound

   “the recording fails to capture the true color of the original music”

   Synonymscolorcolourcoloration

   Broadertimbre
2. 2.

   appearance with regard to color

   “her healthy coloration”

   Synonymscoloration

   Broadercolor

   Narrowerhair coloringpigmentationdepigmentationprotective coloration
3. 3.

   choice and use of colors (as by an artist)

   Synonymscoloration

   Broaderchoice

Other forms of colouration

plural

colourations·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about colouration

What does colouration mean?

colouration means "the timbre of a musical sound". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in colouration?

colouration has 5 syllables: co-lo-u-ra-tion. The stress falls on "ra".

What is another word for colouration?

Close synonyms include color, colour, coloration, coloration, coloration. 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 colouration a common word?

colouration 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.