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GREENNESS

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Green color or pigment; resembling the color of growing grass

Synonyms:

green; greenness; viridity

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("greenness" is a kind of...):

chromatic color; chromatic colour; spectral color; spectral colour (a color that has hue)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "greenness"):

greenishness (the property of being somewhat green)

sea green (the property of a moderate green color resembling the waters of the sea)

sage green (the color of sage leaves)

bottle green (dark to moderate or greyish green)

chrome green (a brilliant green color)

emerald (the green color of an emerald)

olive-green; olive green (a color that is lighter and greener than olive)

chartreuse; Paris green; pea green; yellow green; yellowish green (a shade of green tinged with yellow)

blue green; bluish green; teal (a blue-green color or pigment)

jade; jade green (a light green color varying from bluish green to yellowish green)

Derivation:

green (of the color between blue and yellow in the color spectrum; similar to the color of fresh grass)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The lush appearance of flourishing vegetation

Synonyms:

greenness; verdancy; verdure

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("greenness" is a kind of...):

cornucopia; profuseness; profusion; richness (the property of being extremely abundant)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The state of not being ripe

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("greenness" is a kind of...):

immatureness; immaturity (not having reached maturity)

Antonym:

ripeness (the state of being ripe)

Derivation:

green (not fully developed or mature; not ripe)

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 Context examples: 

A new analysis of NASA satellite data shows Africa's Congo rainforest, the second-largest tropical rainforest in the world, has undergone a large-scale decline in greenness over the past decade.

(NASA finds drought may take toll on Congo rainforest, NASA)

The study found a gradually decreasing trend in Congo rainforest greenness.

(NASA finds drought may take toll on Congo rainforest, NASA)