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Answer for the clue "The quality or state of the chromatic color resembling the hue of sunflowers or ripe lemons ", 10 letters:
yellowness

Word definitions for yellowness in dictionaries

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The state or quality of being yellow. 2 (context obsolete English) jealousy

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. the quality or state of the chromatic color resembling the hue of sunflowers or ripe lemons [syn: yellow ]

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Yellowness \Yel"low*ness\, n. The quality or state of being yellow; as, the yellowness of an orange. Jealousy. [Obs.] I will possess him with yellowness. --Shak.

Usage examples of yellowness.

Perhaps its yellowness tempered for his vision the icy lucency around.

As for the yellowness like a garment, that is too familiar to the eyes of all who have ever looked on the hideous mask of confluent variola.

In all his glistening yellowness, Corky Laputa moved among the onlookers, like a buzzless bumblebee patiently gathering a morsel of nectar here, a morsel there.

Its surface, twice the temperature of Sol's, glows white with none of the sun's hint of yellowness, and it breathes out ten times as much energy into the faces of its scattered flock of planets.

Joad took a few steps, and the flourlike dust spurted up in front of his new yellow shoes, and the yellowness was disappearing under gray dust.

I could wake and raise my eyes to the map of old settlements along the Mediter­ranean coast—Gazala, Tobruk, Mersa Matruh—and south of that the hand-painted wadis, and surrounding those the shades of yellowness that we invaded, tried to lose ourselves in.