pinkiness

noun

pink·​i·​ness

-kēnə̇s,

-kin-

plural -es

: the quality or state of being pinky

his shaven face, scarcely ruffled by the lines of his fifty years, had the same shell-like pinkiness

—W. J. Locke

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