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FRESHNESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Originality by virtue of being refreshingly novel
Synonyms:
freshness; novelty
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("freshness" is a kind of...):
originality (the quality of being new and original (not derived from something else))
Derivation:
fresh ((of a cycle) beginning or occurring again)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The trait of being rude and impertinent; inclined to take liberties
Synonyms:
cheekiness; crust; freshness; gall; impertinence; impudence; insolence
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("freshness" is a kind of...):
discourtesy; rudeness (a manner that is rude and insulting)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "freshness"):
chutzpa; chutzpah; hutzpah ((Yiddish) unbelievable gall; insolence; audacity)
Derivation:
fresh (improperly forward or bold)
Sense 3
Meaning:
The property of being pure and fresh (as if newly made); not stale or deteriorated
Example:
the freshness of the air revived him
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("freshness" is a kind of...):
newness (the quality of being new; the opposite of oldness)
Attribute:
fresh (recently made, produced, or harvested)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "freshness"):
crispness (a pleasing firmness and freshness)
Antonym:
staleness (having lost purity and freshness as a consequence of aging)
Derivation:
fresh (not yet used or soiled)
fresh (recently made, produced, or harvested)
fresh (imparting vitality and energy)
fresh (free from impurities)
fresh (not soured or preserved)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Originality by virtue of being new and surprising
Synonyms:
freshness; novelty
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("freshness" is a kind of...):
originality (the ability to think and act independently)
Derivation:
fresh (original and of a kind not seen before)
Sense 5
Meaning:
An alert and refreshed state
Synonyms:
freshness; glow
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("freshness" is a kind of...):
good health; healthiness (the state of being vigorous and free from bodily or mental disease)
Derivation:
fresh (with restored energy)
Context examples:
The worn-out past was sunk in the freshness of what was coming; and in the rapidity of half a moment's thought, she hoped Mr. Elton would now be talked of no more.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
"And what right would that ruin have to bid a budding woodbine cover its decay with freshness?"
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
I noticed, I remember, as he paused, looking at me with his handsome head a little thrown back, and his glass raised in his hand, that, though the freshness of the sea-wind was on his face, and it was ruddy, there were traces in it, made since I last saw it, as if he had applied himself to some habitual strain of the fervent energy which, when roused, was so passionately roused within him.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
But with William and Fanny Price it was still a sentiment in all its prime and freshness, wounded by no opposition of interest, cooled by no separate attachment, and feeling the influence of time and absence only in its increase.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
But time began at last to obliterate the freshness of my alarm; the praises of conscience began to grow into a thing of course; I began to be tortured with throes and longings, as of Hyde struggling after freedom; and at last, in an hour of moral weakness, I once again compounded and swallowed the transforming draught.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Certain it was that she was to come; and that Highbury, instead of welcoming that perfect novelty which had been so long promised it—Mr. Frank Churchill—must put up for the present with Jane Fairfax, who could bring only the freshness of a two years' absence.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
Before commencing, it is but fair to warn you that the story will sound somewhat hackneyed in your ears; but stale details often regain a degree of freshness when they pass through new lips.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Indeed, I think that most grown men who are remarkable in this respect, may with greater propriety be said not to have lost the faculty, than to have acquired it; the rather, as I generally observe such men to retain a certain freshness, and gentleness, and capacity of being pleased, which are also an inheritance they have preserved from their childhood.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
To be losing such pleasures was no trifle; to be losing them, because she was in the midst of closeness and noise, to have confinement, bad air, bad smells, substituted for liberty, freshness, fragrance, and verdure, was infinitely worse: but even these incitements to regret were feeble, compared with what arose from the conviction of being missed by her best friends, and the longing to be useful to those who were wanting her!
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
She was very showy, but she was not genuine: she had a fine person, many brilliant attainments; but her mind was poor, her heart barren by nature: nothing bloomed spontaneously on that soil; no unforced natural fruit delighted by its freshness.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
