saturation.

1. The degree to which a color is vivid rather than grayish.

2. A condition in which a material or system has taken up as much as it can.

Use it for

Words that belong together

• color saturation
• low saturation

On the page

Lower saturation made the image seem distant.

Usage notes

Primary category: sensory / description. Forms: Usually uncountable; no ordinary plural in this sense. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: description. Commonness: moderately common.