Greenness

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Greenness \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.
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     2. Freshness; vigor; newness.


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     3. Immaturity; unripeness; as, the greenness of fruit;
        inexperience; as, the greenness of youth.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  greenness
       n 1: lush greenness of flourishing vegetation [syn: {verdancy}, {verdure}]
       2: the state of not being ripe [ant: {ripeness}]
       3: the property of being green; resembling the color of growing
          grass [syn: {green}, {viridity}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  127 Moby Thesaurus words for "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,
     youthhood