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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. The quality of being green in color; verdantness; also, verdure.
  2. n. The state of being green, in any of the derived senses.

Wiktionary

  1. n. The state or quality of being green.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. The quality of being green; viridity; verdancy.
  2. n. Freshness; vigor; newness.
  3. n. Immaturity; unripeness; ; inexperience.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. the state of not being ripe
  2. n. the lush appearance of flourishing vegetation
  3. n. green color or pigment; resembling the color of growing grass

Examples

  • “Obama's "greenness," is for the environment, it's about his inexperience and incompetence.”

    Poll: Obama drops on health care

  • “So that's it for now - here's to the life-giving rain & the scent of wet earth & the way that the greenness is intensified by the rain until it nearly glows ...”

    May 15th, 2006

  • “The village and its fields were enclosed by barbed wire which separated their greenness from the bleakness of the enmity all around.”

    Shimon Peres - Nobel Lecture

  • “If an army encamp upon green fields, their greenness is soon gone.”

    Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)

  • “The drive was long and hot, but beautiful with all the greenness from the rain we’ve had.”

    The Aftermath

  • “It's an erosion of the very concept of greenness, which is coming to be defined in a way that rewards activism at best, and consumerism at worst.”

    Pretty Green, Real Green

  • “Not a hint of greenness, which is just what I want from my fig scent...”

    Archive 2007-04-01

  • “The functionalism accounts for the visualness and perhaps other broadly-speaking-phenomenal properties of the experience, which is important, but locating the greenness was the crucial work.”

    Representational Theories of Consciousness

  • “Their bloom; calling the greenness of the trees and the blossoming of the fruit by the name of [Greek omitted].”

    Essays and Miscellanies

  • “The greenness was a face, and the face was abnormal.”

    The Gunslinger

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