Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The condition or quality of being fresh, in any sense.
Wiktionary
- n. The state or quality of being fresh.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The state of being fresh.
WordNet 3.0
- n. originality by virtue of being new and surprising
- n. the trait of being rude and impertinent; inclined to take liberties
- n. the property of being pure and fresh (as if newly made); not stale or deteriorated
- n. an alert and refreshed state
- n. originality by virtue of being refreshingly novel
Examples
“I just find that many of these wines pick up a certain freshness and brine from the sea air they grow so close to, which just naturally well with raw fish.”
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“Peppermint is so easy to grow (and dry) … and I have yet to try anything sold by any tea company that comes close in freshness or quality to what I am able to grow myself.”
“Something of freshness is missing, something of quality, even when what is told is all true, interesting and useful.”
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“Thirdly, the freshness is gone and the routines are starting to become a little stale.”
“By May, the freshness is off the first bloom, only a memory of color remains as grasses begin to fade from vibrant green to tired yellow, and the flowering desert becomes just a desert once more.”
“This incomparable freshness is the best reason to buy California oil, and you'll be supporting an industry that after a decade of baby steps is taking its first strides.”
“I recognize the close, musty smell of a house uninhabited by youth, of an old person's habits and lack of interest in freshness, brightness, and the new.”
“I also get impatient with books that are stale by the time they come out, as so many have to be simply because the process of publishing — pitch to agent to editor to committee to writing to editing to production to marketing to distribution — takes so long (and costs so much) that freshness is impossible.”
“Surely it should be one of our tasks to try and preserve those streams in freshness and vigour.”
“In her own country, they are considered never to have been excelled in freshness and freedom of expression.”
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