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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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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]
WordNet (r) 2.0
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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
green, verdancy, verdure, viridity
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