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greenness
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun greenness has 3 senses
- greenness(n = noun.attribute) verdancy, verdure - the lush appearance of flourishing vegetation; Array is a kind of cornucopia, profuseness, profusion, richness
- greenness(n = noun.state) Array - the state of not being ripe; Array is a kind of immatureness, immaturity
- greenness(n = noun.attribute) green, viridity - green color or pigment; resembling the color of growing grass; Array is a kind of chromatic color, chromatic colour, spectral color, spectral colour
Derived form adjective green3
Antonym: ripeness
has particulars: 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
Derived form adjective green1
CIDE DICTIONARY
greenness, n. [AS. gr. See Green.].
- The quality of being green; viridity; verdancy; as, the greenness of grass, or of a meadow. [1913 Webster]
- Freshness; vigor; newness. [1913 Webster]
- Immaturity; unripeness; as, the greenness of fruit; inexperience; as, the greenness of youth. [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
greenness
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, know-nothingism, knowledge-gap, 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, youthhoodROGET THESAURUS
greenness
Greenness
N greenness, green, blue and yellow, vert, emerald, verd antique, verdigris, malachite, beryl, aquamarine, absinthe, cr=eme de menthe, terre verte, verditer, verdine, copperas, greenness, verdure, viridity, viridescence, verditure, glaucoma, rokunaisho, green, verdant, glaucous, olive, olive green, green as grass, verdurous, emerald green, pea green, grass green, apple green, sea green, olive green, bottle green, coke bottle green, greenish, virent, virescent, green (learner), new, inexperienced, novice, (unskillful), green (ill, sick), green with envy, the green grass of Ireland, the wearing of the green, greenness, green, blue and yellow, vert, emerald, verd antique, verdigris, malachite, beryl, aquamarine, absinthe, cr=eme de menthe, terre verte, verditer, verdine, copperas, greenness, verdure, viridity, viridescence, verditure, glaucoma, rokunaisho, green, verdant, glaucous, olive, olive green, green as grass, verdurous, emerald green, pea green, grass green, apple green, sea green, olive green, bottle green, coke bottle green, greenish, virent, virescent, green (learner), new, inexperienced, novice, (unskillful), green (ill, sick), green with envy, the green grass of Ireland, the wearing of the green.
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