a. [f. TINT sb.1 + -Y.] Full of tints; having the tints too prominent or inharmoniously combined. Hence Tintiness.
1883. Athenæum, 2 June, 705/2. The prevalence of tinty colouring, thinness of tone, and lack or solidity … is still observable among the members’ works. Ibid. (1886), 18 Sept., 377. What painters call tintiness when they observe that the Brilliancy of local tints severally affects their harmony and the tertiaries are weak.
