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Is the following sentence grammatically correct?

Every ball has quite a different colour from each other.

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    Color requires an article. Every ball... from every other ball or Each ... from all the other balls but not Every ... from each other. Each other is reciprocal.
    – StoneyB on hiatus
    Mar 11, 2015 at 0:18
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    Or, you can finesse the question by saying "Each ball has a unique color."
    – WhatRoughBeast
    Mar 11, 2015 at 3:00
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    Actually, a better sentence (consistent with the actual picture) and without changing the example sentence structure would be: "Each ball is colored differently." A reader of the original sentence would assume that each ball is mono-colored/shaded and would not mentally visualize the above image. If you only use "color", then you would have to use modifiers: color scheme, color pattern, color mix, etc. Alternately, you can make 'color" plural in this context.
    – Gary
    Mar 11, 2015 at 16:37

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Many ways you can describe that including StoneyB's two options.

For instance,

Every ball has a different color from every other ball
Each ball has a different color from all the other balls, or simply...
All balls are of different colors

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