colour vs skin colour

skin colour vs colour

colour and skin colour both are nouns.

colour is an adjective but skin colour is not an adjective.

colour is a verb but skin colour is not a verb.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
colour	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
skin colour	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, skin colour is a hyponym of colour; that is, skin colour is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than colour:

colour: a visual attribute of things that results from the light they emit or transmit or reflect
skin colour: the coloring of a person's face

Other hyponyms of colour include primary color, primary colour, heather, heather mixture, mottle, shade, tincture, tint, tone, chromatic color, chromatic colour, spectral color, spectral colour, achromatic color, achromatic colour, coloration, colouration, complexion, skin color, dithered color, dithered colour, nonsolid color, nonsolid colour, eye color, eye colour.

colour (noun)	skin colour (noun)
a visual attribute of things that results from the light they emit or transmit or reflect	the coloring of a person's face
the appearance of objects (or light sources) described in terms of a person's perception of their hue and lightness (or brightness) and saturation
the timbre of a musical sound
interest and variety and intensity
an outward or token appearance or form that is deliberately misleading
(physics) the characteristic of quarks that determines their role in the strong interaction
any material used for its color

colour (adjective)	skin colour (adjective)
having or capable of producing colors

colour (verb)	skin colour (verb)
change color, often in an undesired manner
add color to
affect as in thought or feeling
give a deceptive explanation or excuse for
decorate with colors
modify or bias

Difference between colour and skin colour

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