greenness

1. 1.

   the lush appearance of flourishing vegetation

   Synonymsverdancyverdure

   Broaderprofusion
2. 2.

   the state of not being ripe

   Antonymsripeness

   Broaderimmaturity
3. 3.

   green color or pigment; resembling the color of growing grass

   Synonymsgreenviridity

   Broaderchromatic color

   Narrowergreenishnesssea greensage greenbottle greenchrome greenemeraldolive greenyellow greenbluish greenjade green

Other forms of greenness

plural

greennesses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about greenness

What does greenness mean?

greenness means "the lush appearance of flourishing vegetation". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in greenness?

greenness has 2 syllables: green-ness. The stress falls on "green". In IPA it is /ˈɡɹinnəs/.

What is another word for greenness?

Close synonyms include verdancy, verdure, green, viridity. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of greenness?

The recorded antonyms are ripeness.

Is greenness a common word?

greenness is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.