"blueness" meaning in English

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Noun

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), 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, English terms suffixed with -ness Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 97 3 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ness: 94 6 Disambiguation of 'quality or characteristic of being blue': 98 2
  2. Melancholy. Tags: uncountable, usually Synonyms: blues#Noun
    Sense id: en-blueness-en-noun-cR19nIur

Inflected forms

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