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Brownness

Brownness \Brown"ness\, n. The quality or state of being brown.

Now like I brown (O lovely brown thy hair); Only in brownness beauty dwelleth there.
--Drayton.

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brownness

n. The characteristic of being brown.

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brownness

n. an orange of low brightness and saturation [syn: brown]

Usage examples of "brownness".

Beneath his window was a neat garden, scruffy now with autumn brownness, in the center of which was a formal quatrefoil pond, the water green with algae and rippling in the brisk wind.

To illustrate with the example you've offered -- brown hair versus blond -- let's imagine a dominant gene, B, for brownness, and its recessive counterpart, W, for whiteness.