"greenness" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈɡɹiːn.nəs/ [UK] Forms: greennesses [plural]
Etymology: From Middle English grennesse, from Old English grennes; equivalent to green + -ness. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|grennesse}} Middle English grennesse, {{inh|en|ang|grennes}} Old English grennes, {{af|en|green|-ness}} green + -ness Head templates: {{en-noun|-|+}} greenness (usually uncountable, plural greennesses)
  1. The state or quality of being green; green colour. Tags: uncountable, usually Translations (state of being green (environmentally conscious)): vihreys (Finnish), verdor [masculine] (Spanish), yeşillik (Turkish) Translations (state of being green (green in color)): خُضْرَة (ḵuḍra) [feminine] (Arabic), зеленина (zelenina) [feminine] (Bulgarian), vihreys (Finnish), verdeur [feminine] (French), verdura [feminine] (Galician), verdor [masculine] (Galician), სიმწვანე (simc̣vane) (Georgian), یشیللك (yeşillik) (Ottoman Turkish), verdor [masculine] (Portuguese), verde (Spanish), grönhet [common-gender] (Swedish), grönska [common-gender] (Swedish), kaberdehan (Tagalog), kaluntian (Tagalog), పచ్చదనము (paccadanamu) (Telugu), పచ్చన (paccana) (Telugu), yeşillik (Turkish)
    Sense id: en-greenness-en-noun-OEswn61a Disambiguation of 'state of being green (environmentally conscious)': 63 2 0 35 Disambiguation of 'state of being green (green in color)': 82 3 0 15
  2. (now rare) Vitality, freshness. Tags: archaic, uncountable, usually
    Sense id: en-greenness-en-noun-O~u6PRUa
  3. Inexperience. Tags: uncountable, usually
    Sense id: en-greenness-en-noun-RqR5cFO6
  4. The fact of being environmentally or ecologically conscious; commitment to environmental conservation. Tags: uncountable, usually
    Sense id: en-greenness-en-noun-wlMZVPGs 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 Bulgarian translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with Galician translations, Terms with Georgian translations, Terms with Ottoman Turkish translations, Terms with Portuguese translations, Terms with Spanish translations, Terms with Swedish translations, Terms with Tagalog translations, Terms with Telugu translations, Terms with Turkish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 32 3 2 63 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ness: 33 6 5 56 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 8 7 5 80 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 14 6 5 75 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 7 6 4 83 Disambiguation of Terms with Arabic translations: 16 8 6 70 Disambiguation of Terms with Bulgarian translations: 15 7 6 72 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 15 7 6 72 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 8 7 5 79 Disambiguation of Terms with Galician translations: 16 8 6 70 Disambiguation of Terms with Georgian translations: 15 8 6 71 Disambiguation of Terms with Ottoman Turkish translations: 24 6 5 64 Disambiguation of Terms with Portuguese translations: 15 7 5 72 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 12 5 3 80 Disambiguation of Terms with Swedish translations: 14 6 4 76 Disambiguation of Terms with Tagalog translations: 17 8 6 69 Disambiguation of Terms with Telugu translations: 10 9 7 75 Disambiguation of Terms with Turkish translations: 15 6 5 74

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1950, Mervyn Peake, Gormenghast:",
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      "sense": "state of being green (green in color)",
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      "sense": "state of being green (green in color)",
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      "sense": "state of being green (green in color)",
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      "sense": "state of being green (environmentally conscious)",
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      "sense": "state of being green (environmentally conscious)",
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      "sense": "state of being green (environmentally conscious)",
      "word": "yeşillik"
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  "word": "greenness"
}

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-21 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (d8cb2f3 and 4e554ae). 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.