"lightfastness" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: lightfastnesses [plural]
Etymology: lightfast + -ness Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|lightfast|ness}} lightfast + -ness Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} lightfastness (countable and uncountable, plural lightfastnesses)
  1. The quality or degree of being lightfast. Tags: countable, uncountable Hypernyms: sunfastness Related terms: colorfastness, nonfading, unfadeable
    Sense id: en-lightfastness-en-noun-9qzUoB~p Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ness

Inflected forms

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