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Noun complexion has 5 senses
- complexion, skin color, skin colour - the coloring of a person's face
--1 is a kind of color, colour, coloring, colouring
--1 has particulars: | paleness, blondness, fairness; ruddiness, rosiness; lividness, lividity, luridness, paleness, pallidness, pallor, wanness, achromasia; sallowness; tawniness; darkness, duskiness, swarthiness |
- complexion - a combination that results from coupling or interlinking; "diphthongs are complexions of vowels"
--2 is a kind of combination
- complexion - a point of view or general attitude or inclination; "he altered the complexion of his times"; "a liberal political complexion"
--3 is a kind of point of view, viewpoint, stand, standpoint
- complexion, skin condition - texture and appearance of the skin of the face
--4 is a kind of appearance, visual aspect
- complexion - (obsolete) a combination of elements (of dryness and warmth or of the four humors) that was once believed to determine a person's health and temperament
--5 is a kind of nature
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