Abstract:
The article is devoted to the problems of study of the nominative units with the semantics of colour in psycholinguistic
aspect. The overview of linguistic research of coloronyms is carried out in the work, psycholinguistic
features of colour names and the significance of colour meanings are identified in the framework of
the psycholinguistic aspect. The words which specify colour, its semantic features are analyzed, the system of
colour vocabulary is classified and the issues associated with reflection of colour categories in human consciousness
are described.
