What is a dark coloring caused by increasing pigment called?

hypertrichosis
albinism
hyperkeratosis
melanism
Melanism is a development of the dark-colored pigment melanin in the skin or its appendages and is the opposite of albinism. The word melanism is derived from the Greek.
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