Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The quality of being red; a red color.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The quality or state of being red; red color.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The quality of being red in color.
  • noun A red discoloration.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun red color or pigment; the chromatic color resembling the hue of blood
  • noun a response of body tissues to injury or irritation; characterized by pain and swelling and redness and heat

Etymologies

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From red +‎ -ness.

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Examples

  • He was at one and the same instant all modern, all imminently primitive, capable of fighting in redness of tooth and claw, desirous of remaining modern for as long as he could with his will master the study of ebon black of skin and dazzling white of decoration that confronted him.

    CHAPTER IX 2010

  • Redness causes redness is not the equivalent of "certain features of life are best explained with reference to the purposeful arrangement of parts."

    Bunny and a Book 2008

  • Redness causes redness is not the equivalent of "certain features of life are best explained with reference to the purposeful arrangement of parts."

    Bunny and a Book 2008

  • Redness causes redness is not the equivalent of "certain features of life are best explained with reference to the purposeful arrangement of parts."

    Bunny and a Book 2008

  • Of course, just as results from laser treatments vary from patient to patient, there can also be pain associated with certain treatments, as well as possible side affects, including short-term redness, burning and even hyper-pigmentation.

    Beauty In A Flash 2006

  • He was at one and the same instant all modern, all imminently primitive, capable of fighting in redness of tooth and claw, desirous of remaining modern for as long as he could with his will master the study of ebon black of skin and dazzling white of decoration that confronted him.

    Chapter 9 1917

  • It has, indeed, such a configuration of particles, both night and day, as are apt, by the rays of light rebounding from some parts of that hard stone, to produce in us the idea of redness, and from others the idea of whiteness; but whiteness or redness are not in it at any time, but such a texture that hath the power to produce such a sensation in us.

    An Essay Concerning Human Understanding 2007

  • But this seems to have matters the wrong way around: If this psychosemantics or that one cannot predict that Cynthia is representing redness, that is an objection to the psychosemantics, not to the claim that Cynthia is representing redness, which claim is more credible than is any particular psychosemantics.

    Representational Theories of Consciousness Lycan, William 2006

  • On this Fregean view of the content of perception, the difference between Invert's and Nonvert's experiences is that they represent the very same property, namely redness, in different ways, or under different modes of presentation.

    Inverted Qualia Byrne, Alex 2006

  • We call the redness, the roundness, the hardness and the singleness, 'qualities' of the marble; and it sounds, at first, the height of absurdity to say that all these qualities are modes of our own consciousness, which cannot even be conceived to exist in the marble.

    Thomas Henry Huxley; A Sketch Of His Life And Work 1904

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