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for greenness
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
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) 3.0 (2006) :
greenness
n 1: the lush appearance of flourishing vegetation [syn:
greenness, verdancy, verdure]
2: the state of not being ripe [ant: ripeness]
3: green color or pigment; resembling the color of growing grass
[syn: green, greenness, viridity]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :
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
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