blueness

English

Etymology

From blue +‎ -ness.

Noun

blueness (usually uncountable, plural bluenesses)

1. The quality or characteristic of being blue in color.
   • 1905, H. G. Wells, Empire of the Ants

     In an atlas, too, the land is man's, and all coloured to show his claim to it — in vivid contrast to the universal independent blueness of the sea.

2. Melancholy.

Translations

quality or characteristic of being blue

• Arabic: زُرْقَة f (zurqa)
• Catalan: blavor (ca) f
• Finnish: sinisyys (fi)
• French: bleuité (fr) f
• Georgian: სილურჯე (silurǯe)
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• German: Bläue (de) f
• Romanian: albăstrime (ro) f
• Slovene: módrost (sl) f
• Swedish: blåhet (sv) c