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greenness

[ green-nis ]

noun

  1. the quality or state of being green.
  2. green vegetation, grass, or the like; verdure or verdancy.
  3. lack of maturity or experience; youthfulness.
  4. the state or quality of being naive; innocence; gullibility.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of greenness1

before 900; Middle English, Old English grēnnes. See green, -ness

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Example Sentences

It was an unprecedented landscape before my eyes, because nature in Cuba only loses its greenness when drought devours it.

Greenness was welling up in what had been until not long ago a winter forest.

For the waters of Nemrim shall be desolate, for the grass is withered away, the spring is faded, all the greenness is perished.

The houses were of wood, and chiefly painted white, sweet and cool in the vast greenness.

Unless thoroughly washed, it has a tendency to greenness in time.

You would also be saved the pain of rejecting servants to their faces, on the ground of "greenness," or bodily unfitness.

He pushed the diffident greenness back, and went whistling rudely across the lands.

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