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bleen

adj
/bliːn/

Etymology

Blend of blue + green; coined by American philosopher Nelson Goodman in 1955 to illustrate concepts in the philosophy of science

  1. derived from *gʰreh₁-✻
  2. inherited from *grōniz✻
  3. inherited from *grōnī✻
  4. inherited from grēne
  5. inherited from grene
  6. compounded as bleen — “blue + green”

Definitions

  1. Of an object, blue when first observed before a specified time or green when first…

    Of an object, blue when first observed before a specified time or green when first observed after that time.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for bleen. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA