blueness

noun
/ˈbluːnəs/

Etymology

From blue + -ness.

  1. derived from *bʰlēw-
  2. inherited from *blēwaz
  3. derived from blāvus
  4. derived from *blāu — “blue
  5. derived from bloe
  6. derived from bleu
  7. derived from blew
  8. inherited from blewe
  9. suffixed as blueness — “blue + ness

Definitions

  1. The quality or characteristic of being blue in color.

    • 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.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for blueness. 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