The quality or characteristic of readily absorbing or attracting dyes and pigments; the affinity of cells or tissues for colored substances.
From Greek 'chroma' (color) + 'philia' (love of, attraction to). The noun form describing the property or tendency.
Chromatophilia is actually how doctors and scientists used to understand what was wrong with tissues long before modern scanning—if a cell stained dark, it was chromatophilic, and that color difference often revealed disease.
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