"blueness" meaning in All languages combined

See blueness on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈbluːnəs/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-blueness.wav Forms: bluenesses [plural]
Etymology: From blue + -ness. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|blue|ness}} blue + -ness Head templates: {{en-noun|-|+}} blueness (usually uncountable, plural bluenesses)
  1. The quality or characteristic of being blue in color. Tags: uncountable, usually Translations (quality or characteristic of being blue): زُرْقَة (zurqa) [feminine] (Arabic), blavor [feminine] (Catalan), blauwheid [feminine] (Dutch), sinisyys (Finnish), bleuité [feminine] (French), სილურჯე (silurǯe) (Georgian), Bläue [feminine] (German), niebieskość [feminine] (Polish), błękitność [feminine] (Polish), albăstrime [feminine] (Romanian), módrost [feminine] (Slovene), blåhet [common-gender] (Swedish), blånad [common-gender] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-blueness-en-noun-PSqk1lMV Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Arabic translations, Terms with Catalan translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Romanian translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 50 50 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 48 52 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 49 51 Disambiguation of Terms with Arabic translations: 45 55 Disambiguation of Terms with Catalan translations: 45 55 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 45 55 Disambiguation of Terms with Romanian translations: 45 55 Disambiguation of 'quality or characteristic of being blue': 95 5
  2. Melancholy. Tags: uncountable, usually
    Sense id: en-blueness-en-noun-cR19nIur Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ness, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Arabic translations, Terms with Catalan translations, Terms with Dutch translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with Georgian translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Polish translations, Terms with Romanian translations, Terms with Slovene translations, Terms with Swedish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 50 50 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ness: 44 56 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 33 67 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 48 52 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 49 51 Disambiguation of Terms with Arabic translations: 45 55 Disambiguation of Terms with Catalan translations: 45 55 Disambiguation of Terms with Dutch translations: 42 58 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 42 58 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 41 59 Disambiguation of Terms with Georgian translations: 40 60 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 45 55 Disambiguation of Terms with Polish translations: 41 59 Disambiguation of Terms with Romanian translations: 45 55 Disambiguation of Terms with Slovene translations: 40 60 Disambiguation of Terms with Swedish translations: 44 56 Synonyms: blues#Noun, blueness, blues, crestfallenness, dejection, depression, despondency, distress, dolefulness, downheartedness, drearihead [obsolete], forlornness, grief, heartsore [rare], ill-being, infelicity, melancholia, melancholy, misery, mishappiness [obsolete], mourn [literary], prosternation [obsolete], regret [obsolete], rue [archaic, dialectal], ruth [obsolete], sadness, sorrow, sorrowfulness, tristfulness, undelight, unhappiness, woe, woefare, wretchedness

Inflected forms

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "blue",
        "3": "ness"
      },
      "expansion": "blue + -ness",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From blue + -ness.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "bluenesses",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-",
        "2": "+"
      },
      "expansion": "blueness (usually uncountable, plural bluenesses)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "50 50",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "48 52",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "49 51",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "45 55",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Arabic translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "45 55",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Catalan translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "45 55",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with German translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "45 55",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Romanian translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Coordinate term: bluishness"
        },
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              127,
              135
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "1905, H. G. Wells, Empire of the Ants:",
          "text": "In an atlas, too, the land is man's, and all coloured to show his claim to it — in vivid contrast to the universal independent blueness of the sea.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The quality or characteristic of being blue in color."
      ],
      "id": "en-blueness-en-noun-PSqk1lMV",
      "links": [
        [
          "blue",
          "blue"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable",
        "usually"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "95 5",
          "code": "ar",
          "lang": "Arabic",
          "roman": "zurqa",
          "sense": "quality or characteristic of being blue",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "زُرْقَة"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "95 5",
          "code": "ca",
          "lang": "Catalan",
          "sense": "quality or characteristic of being blue",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "blavor"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "95 5",
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "quality or characteristic of being blue",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "blauwheid"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "95 5",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "quality or characteristic of being blue",
          "word": "sinisyys"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "95 5",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "quality or characteristic of being blue",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "bleuité"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "95 5",
          "code": "ka",
          "lang": "Georgian",
          "roman": "silurǯe",
          "sense": "quality or characteristic of being blue",
          "word": "სილურჯე"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "95 5",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "quality or characteristic of being blue",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "Bläue"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "95 5",
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "quality or characteristic of being blue",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "niebieskość"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "95 5",
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "quality or characteristic of being blue",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "błękitność"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "95 5",
          "code": "ro",
          "lang": "Romanian",
          "sense": "quality or characteristic of being blue",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "albăstrime"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "95 5",
          "code": "sl",
          "lang": "Slovene",
          "sense": "quality or characteristic of being blue",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "módrost"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "95 5",
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "quality or characteristic of being blue",
          "tags": [
            "common-gender"
          ],
          "word": "blåhet"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "95 5",
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "quality or characteristic of being blue",
          "tags": [
            "common-gender"
          ],
          "word": "blånad"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "50 50",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "44 56",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -ness",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "33 67",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Entries with translation boxes",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "48 52",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "49 51",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "45 55",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Arabic translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "45 55",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Catalan translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "42 58",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Dutch translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "42 58",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Finnish translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "41 59",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with French translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "40 60",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Georgian translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "45 55",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with German translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "41 59",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Polish translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "45 55",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Romanian translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "40 60",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Slovene translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "44 56",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Swedish translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Melancholy."
      ],
      "id": "en-blueness-en-noun-cR19nIur",
      "links": [
        [
          "Melancholy",
          "melancholy"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "blues#Noun"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:sadness",
          "word": "blueness"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:sadness",
          "word": "blues"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:sadness",
          "word": "crestfallenness"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:sadness",
          "word": "dejection"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:sadness",
          "word": "depression"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:sadness",
          "word": "despondency"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:sadness",
          "word": "distress"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:sadness",
          "word": "dolefulness"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:sadness",
          "word": "downheartedness"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:sadness",
          "tags": [
            "obsolete"
          ],
          "word": "drearihead"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:sadness",
          "word": "forlornness"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:sadness",
          "word": "grief"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:sadness",
          "tags": [
            "rare"
          ],
          "word": "heartsore"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:sadness",
          "word": "ill-being"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:sadness",
          "word": "infelicity"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:sadness",
          "word": "melancholia"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:sadness",
          "word": "melancholy"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:sadness",
          "word": "misery"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:sadness",
          "tags": [
            "obsolete"
          ],
          "word": "mishappiness"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:sadness",
          "tags": [
            "literary"
          ],
          "word": "mourn"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:sadness",
          "tags": [
            "obsolete"
          ],
          "word": "prosternation"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:sadness",
          "tags": [
            "obsolete"
          ],
          "word": "regret"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:sadness",
          "tags": [
            "archaic",
            "dialectal"
          ],
          "word": "rue"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:sadness",
          "tags": [
            "obsolete"
          ],
          "word": "ruth"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:sadness",
          "word": "sadness"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:sadness",
          "word": "sorrow"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:sadness",
          "word": "sorrowfulness"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:sadness",
          "word": "tristfulness"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:sadness",
          "word": "undelight"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:sadness",
          "word": "unhappiness"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:sadness",
          "word": "woe"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:sadness",
          "word": "woefare"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:sadness",
          "word": "wretchedness"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable",
        "usually"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈbluːnəs/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-blueness.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/8/81/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-blueness.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-blueness.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/8/81/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-blueness.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-blueness.wav.ogg"
    }
  ],
  "word": "blueness"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms suffixed with -ness",
    "English uncountable nouns",
    "Entries with translation boxes",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries",
    "Terms with Arabic translations",
    "Terms with Catalan translations",
    "Terms with Dutch translations",
    "Terms with Finnish translations",
    "Terms with French translations",
    "Terms with Georgian translations",
    "Terms with German translations",
    "Terms with Polish translations",
    "Terms with Romanian translations",
    "Terms with Slovene translations",
    "Terms with Swedish translations"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "blue",
        "3": "ness"
      },
      "expansion": "blue + -ness",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From blue + -ness.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "bluenesses",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-",
        "2": "+"
      },
      "expansion": "blueness (usually uncountable, plural bluenesses)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Coordinate term: bluishness"
        },
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              127,
              135
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "1905, H. G. Wells, Empire of the Ants:",
          "text": "In an atlas, too, the land is man's, and all coloured to show his claim to it — in vivid contrast to the universal independent blueness of the sea.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The quality or characteristic of being blue in color."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "blue",
          "blue"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable",
        "usually"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Melancholy."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Melancholy",
          "melancholy"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "blues#Noun"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:sadness",
          "word": "blueness"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:sadness",
          "word": "blues"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:sadness",
          "word": "crestfallenness"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:sadness",
          "word": "dejection"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:sadness",
          "word": "depression"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:sadness",
          "word": "despondency"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:sadness",
          "word": "distress"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:sadness",
          "word": "dolefulness"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:sadness",
          "word": "downheartedness"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:sadness",
          "tags": [
            "obsolete"
          ],
          "word": "drearihead"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:sadness",
          "word": "forlornness"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:sadness",
          "word": "grief"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:sadness",
          "tags": [
            "rare"
          ],
          "word": "heartsore"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:sadness",
          "word": "ill-being"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:sadness",
          "word": "infelicity"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:sadness",
          "word": "melancholia"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:sadness",
          "word": "melancholy"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:sadness",
          "word": "misery"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:sadness",
          "tags": [
            "obsolete"
          ],
          "word": "mishappiness"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:sadness",
          "tags": [
            "literary"
          ],
          "word": "mourn"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:sadness",
          "tags": [
            "obsolete"
          ],
          "word": "prosternation"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:sadness",
          "tags": [
            "obsolete"
          ],
          "word": "regret"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:sadness",
          "tags": [
            "archaic",
            "dialectal"
          ],
          "word": "rue"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:sadness",
          "tags": [
            "obsolete"
          ],
          "word": "ruth"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:sadness",
          "word": "sadness"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:sadness",
          "word": "sorrow"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:sadness",
          "word": "sorrowfulness"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:sadness",
          "word": "tristfulness"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:sadness",
          "word": "undelight"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:sadness",
          "word": "unhappiness"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:sadness",
          "word": "woe"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:sadness",
          "word": "woefare"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:sadness",
          "word": "wretchedness"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable",
        "usually"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈbluːnəs/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-blueness.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/8/81/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-blueness.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-blueness.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/8/81/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-blueness.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-blueness.wav.ogg"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "zurqa",
      "sense": "quality or characteristic of being blue",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "زُرْقَة"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "quality or characteristic of being blue",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "blavor"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "quality or characteristic of being blue",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "blauwheid"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "quality or characteristic of being blue",
      "word": "sinisyys"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "quality or characteristic of being blue",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "bleuité"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "silurǯe",
      "sense": "quality or characteristic of being blue",
      "word": "სილურჯე"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "quality or characteristic of being blue",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Bläue"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "quality or characteristic of being blue",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "niebieskość"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "quality or characteristic of being blue",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "błękitność"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "quality or characteristic of being blue",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "albăstrime"
    },
    {
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "quality or characteristic of being blue",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "módrost"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "quality or characteristic of being blue",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "blåhet"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "quality or characteristic of being blue",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "blånad"
    }
  ],
  "word": "blueness"
}

Download raw JSONL data for blueness meaning in All languages combined (5.8kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-05-19 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-05-01 using wiktextract (c3cc510 and 1d3fdbf). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.