Results for greenness

Definitions of greenness:

Quality of being green; unripeness; freshness; vigour; inexperience.

Usage examples for greenness:

• We turned through lodge gates into a narrow drive in a well- kept garden where there was a lawn of English greenness on which were children and nurses and many dogs, and young people who played at the lawn- tennis. "The Martian", George Du Maurier

• I like the greenness and the tranquillity and the sea; and the solitude of one dear seat which hangs over it, and which is too far or too lonely for many others to like besides myself. "The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2)", Frederic G. Kenyon

• Two large windows, one of which opened upon the lawn, and the other, round the corner, in the other wall of the house, commanded a pretty view of the village, lying with its red roofs in the midst of a luxuriant greenness "A Country Gentleman and his Family", Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

• And Beatrice, looking neither at her father nor at any other one there present, but looking straight before her over the gilded greenness of the garden, answered, quietly, " No." Then Folco questioned her again. "The God of Love", Justin Huntly McCarthy