English > complexion: 6 senses > noun 1, attribute| Meaning | The coloring of a person's face. |
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| Synonyms | skin color, skin colour |
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| Attributes | blond, blonde, light-haired | Being or having light colored skin and hair and usually blue or grey eyes |
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| brunet, brunette | marked by dark or relatively dark pigmentation of hair or skin or eyes |
| Narrower | darkness, duskiness, swarthiness | A swarthy complexion |
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| lividness, lividity, luridness, paleness, pallidness, pallor, wanness, achromasia | unnatural lack of color in the skin (as from bruising or sickness or emotional distress) |
| paleness, blondness, fairness | The property of having a naturally light complexion |
| ruddiness, rosiness | A healthy reddish complexion |
| sallowness | A sickly yellowish skin color |
| tawniness | The quality or state of being the color of tanned leather |
| whiteness | lightness or fairness of complexion |
| Broader | color, colour, coloring, colouring | A visual attribute of things that results from the light they emit or transmit or reflect |
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| Spanish | color de la piel, tez |
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| Verbs | complexion | give a certain color to |
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