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chromatism

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chromatism /chro·ma·tism/ (kro´mah-tizm) abnormal pigment deposits.
chro·ma·tism (krm-tzm)
n.
1. Abnormal pigmentation.
2. See chromatic aberration.
chromatism
[krō′mətiz′əm/] chroma, color + ismos, condition]
1 an abnormal condition characterized by hallucinations in which the affected individual sees colored lights.
2 abnormal pigmentation or aberration.


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The title of this book invites extended semiotic meditation, for the word "colored" has a wide spectrum of meanings: colorization, phenotypic chromatism, the fracturing color line, the absence of color in the binary figuration of its opposite, black-and-white, and a racial pejoration, so common a feature of the American mentality.
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