color constancy

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color constancy - the tendency for a color to look the same under widely different viewing conditions

colour constancy

perceptual constancy, constancy - (psychology) the tendency for perceived objects to give rise to very similar perceptual experiences in spite of wide variations in the conditions of observation

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