Definitions
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- n. The state or quality of being green.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- n. The quality of being green; viridity; verdancy.
- n. Freshness; vigor; newness.
- n. Immaturity; unripeness; ; inexperience.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The quality of being green in color; verdantness; also, verdure.
- n. The state of being green, in any of the derived senses.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- n. the state of not being ripe
- n. the lush appearance of flourishing vegetation
- n. green color or pigment; resembling the color of growing grass
Etymologies
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Examples
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Obama's "greenness," is for the environment, it's about his inexperience and incompetence.
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So that's it for now - here's to the life-giving rain & the scent of wet earth & the way that the greenness is intensified by the rain until it nearly glows ...
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The village and its fields were enclosed by barbed wire which separated their greenness from the bleakness of the enmity all around.
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If an army encamp upon green fields, their greenness is soon gone.
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The drive was long and hot, but beautiful with all the greenness from the rain we’ve had.
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It's an erosion of the very concept of greenness, which is coming to be defined in a way that rewards activism at best, and consumerism at worst.
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Not a hint of greenness, which is just what I want from my fig scent...
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The functionalism accounts for the visualness and perhaps other broadly-speaking-phenomenal properties of the experience, which is important, but locating the greenness was the crucial work.
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Their bloom; calling the greenness of the trees and the blossoming of the fruit by the name of [Greek omitted].
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The greenness was a face, and the face was abnormal.
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