skin color

Questions about skin color

What does skin color mean?

skin color means "the coloring of a person's face".

What is another word for skin color?

Close synonyms include complexion, skin colour. 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 skin color a common word?

skin color 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.