GREENNESS

green, greenness, viridity

(noun) green color or pigment; resembling the color of growing grass

greenness, verdancy, verdure

(noun) the lush appearance of flourishing vegetation

greenness

(noun) the state of not being ripe

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

greenness (usually uncountable, plural greennesses)

The state or quality of being green; green colour. [from 8th c.]

(now rare) Vitality, freshness. [from 9th c.]

Inexperience. [from 16th c.]

The fact of being environmentally or ecologically conscious; commitment to environmental conservation. [from 1980s]

Anagrams

• Negrenses, sengreens

Source: Wiktionary


Green"ness, n. Etym: [AS. grnnes. See Green.]

1. The quality of being green; viridity; verdancy; as, the greenness of grass, or of a meadow.

2. Freshness; vigor; newness.

3. Immaturity; unripeness; as, the greenness of fruit; inexperience; as, the greenness of youth.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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Word of the Day

4 April 2025

GUILLOTINE

(verb) kill by cutting the head off with a guillotine; “The French guillotined many Vietnamese while they occupied the country”


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Coffee Trivia

The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.

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