Meaning of GREENNESS
| Pronunciation: | | 'greennis
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- [n] the property of being green; resembling the color of growing grass
- [n] lush greenness of flourishing vegetation
- [n] the state of not being ripe
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| | Synonyms: | | green, verdancy, verdure, viridity |
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| | Antonyms: | | ripeness | | |
| | See Also: | | blue-green, bluish green, bottle green, chartreuse, chromatic color, chromatic colour, chrome green, cornucopia, emerald, greenishness, immatureness, immaturity, jade, jade green, olive green, Paris green, pea green, profuseness, profusion, richness, sage green, sea green, spectral color, spectral colour, teal, yellow green, yellowish green | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Green"ness\, n. [AS. gr[=e]nnes. See {Green.}]
1. The quality of being green; viridity; verdancy; as, the
greenness of grass, or of a meadow.
2. Freshness; vigor; newness.
3. Immaturity; unripeness; as, the greenness of fruit;
inexperience; as, the greenness of youth.
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| | Related Terms: | | acerbity, acescency, acidity, acidulousness, adolescence, agnosticism, amateurishness, amateurism, blankmindedness, brand-newness, callowness, coarseness, crudeness, crudity, cullibility, deceivability, dewiness, dryness, dupability, easiness, empty-headedness, freshness, gloss of novelty, greenhornism, gullibility, hiatus of learning, hoaxability, hyperacidity, ignorance, ignorantism, ignorantness, immatureness, immaturity, inanity, inexperience, infancy, ingenuousness, innocence, intactness, juiciness, juniority, juvenility, knowledge-gap, know-nothingism, lack of information, lateness, maidenhood, minority, mint condition, naiveness, naivete, naivety, nescience, newbornness, newfangledness, newfangleness, newness, nonage, nondevelopment, novelness, novelty, nowness, obscurantism, originality, oversimplicity, oversimplification, persuadability, presentness, pristineness, puberty, pubescence, pungency, rawness, recency, recentness, reductionism, roughness, rudeness, sappiness, seduceability, simpleness, simplicity, simplism, softness, sour, sourishness, sourness, spring, springtide, springtime, strangeness, subacidity, tabula rasa, tartishness, tartness, the rough, unaccustomedness, unacquaintance, unacquaintedness, uncommonness, uncultivation, undevelopment, unexperiencedness, unfamiliarity, unfinish, unfinishedness, unfledgedness, unintelligence, unknowing, unknowingness, unpracticedness, unprofessionalism, unprofessionalness, unrefinement, unripeness, unsophistication, unsweetness, unusualness, vacuity, vacuousness, verjuice, vinegariness, vinegarishness, virginity, weakness, youthfulness, youthhood |
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