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Etiolation [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. The operation of being whitened or of becoming white by excluding the light of the sun.

2. In gardening, the rendering plants white, crisp and tender, by excluding the action of light from them.

Etiolation [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. The operation of blanching plants, by excluding the light of the sun; the condition of a blanched plant.

2. Paleness produced by absence of light, or by disease.

Achromatism Roget’s Thesaurus §429

N. achromatism, decoloration, discoloration, pallor, pallidness, pallidity, paleness, etiolation, neutral tint, monochrome, black and white

V. lose color, fade, fly, go, become colorless, turn pale, pale, deprive of color, decolorize, bleach, tarnish, achromatize, blanch, etiolate, wash out, tone down

Adj. uncolored &c. (see color ), colorless, achromatic, aplanatic, etiolate, etiolated, hueless, pale, pallid, palefaced, tallow-faced, faint, dull, cold, muddy, leaden, dun, wan, sallow, dead, dingy, ashy, ashen, ghastly, cadaverous, glassy, lackluster, discolored, light-colored, fair, blond, white, pale as death, pale as ashes, pale as a witch, pale as a ghost, pale as a corpse, white as a corpse

Whiteness Roget’s Thesaurus §430

N. whiteness, argent, albification, etiolation, lactescence, snow, paper, chalk, milk, lily, ivory, alabaster, albata, eburin, german silver, white metal, barium sulphate, titanium oxide, blanc fixe, ceruse, pearl white, white lead, carbonate of lead

V. be white, render white, whiten, bleach, blanch, etiolate, whitewash, silver

Adj. white, milk-white, snow-white, snowy, niveous, candid, chalky, hoar, hoary, silvery, argent, argentine, canescent, cretaceous, lactescent, whitish, creamy, pearly, fair, blond, blanched, high in tone, light, white as a sheet, white as driven snow, white as a lily, white as silver, like ivory