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Definition of Greenness
1. Noun. The lush appearance of flourishing vegetation.
Generic synonyms: Cornucopia, Profuseness, Profusion, Richness
Derivative terms: Verdant
2. Noun. The state of not being ripe.
3. Noun. Green color or pigment; resembling the color of growing grass.
Generic synonyms: Chromatic Color, Chromatic Colour, Spectral Color, Spectral Colour
Specialized synonyms: Greenishness, Sea Green, Sage Green, Bottle Green, Chrome Green, Emerald, Olive Green, Olive-green, Chartreuse, Paris Green, Pea Green, Yellow Green, Yellowish Green, Blue Green, Bluish Green, Teal, Jade, Jade Green
Derivative terms: Green, Green, Green
Definition of Greenness
1. n. The quality of being green; viridity; verdancy; as, the greenness of grass, or of a meadow.
Definition of Greenness
1. Noun. The state or quality of being green. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Greenness
1. [n -ES]
Medical Definition of Greenness
1. 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. Origin: AS. Gr?nnes. See Green Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Greenness
Literary usage of Greenness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Nature of Truth: An Essay by Harold Henry Joachim (1906)
"The same greenness is united, in the two cases, by two relations (each precisely
... The same greenness and ' precisely and numerically the same' relations ..."
2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"One of the forms of greenness to which oysters are subject is due to the presence
of copper, and appears to be damaging to the quality of the oyster, ..."
3. Letters of Sarah Orne Jewett by Sarah Orne Jewett (1911)
"ness,. the greenness, the birds that sing and the droning bells. Well, when you
wish to give me a happy moment of the sweetest remembrance, ..."
4. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1837)
"They are all that have kept me pure — morally pure — when, to the world, I seemed
like a blasted tree, without greenness or branches. THE DYING TEAR. ..."
5. The Theological and Literary Journal (1850)
"... The moss of old age be thy livery now; But much still survives which has justly
endeared thee; Some greenness still graces each gently bent bough. ..."
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