ELI5- What color are objects actually?

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If things are a certain color because they absorb all color waves except the certain wave length they reflect, then we are seeing a reflected color and not the actual color right?

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“Color” is (roughly) the name we give to “what wavelengths of visible light an object reflects, as filtered through human visual processing”. It doesn’t make sense to ask what color they are “aside from reflected light”, it’s like asking “what is sound if you don’t count vibrations”.

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