FRESHNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does freshness mean? 

• FRESHNESS (noun)
  The noun FRESHNESS has 5 senses:

1. the property of being pure and fresh (as if newly made); not stale or deteriorated

2. originality by virtue of being refreshingly novel

3. an alert and refreshed state

4. originality by virtue of being new and surprising

5. the trait of being rude and impertinent; inclined to take liberties

  Familiarity information: FRESHNESS used as a noun is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FRESHNESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The property of being pure and fresh (as if newly made); not stale or deteriorated

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Context example:

the freshness of the air revived him

Hypernyms ("freshness" is a kind of...):

newness (the quality of being new; the opposite of oldness)

Attribute:

fresh (recently made, produced, or harvested)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "freshness"):

crispness (a pleasing firmness and freshness)

Antonym:

staleness (having lost purity and freshness as a consequence of aging)

Derivation:

fresh (not yet used or soiled)

fresh (recently made, produced, or harvested)

fresh (imparting vitality and energy)

fresh (free from impurities)

fresh (not soured or preserved)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Originality by virtue of being refreshingly novel

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

freshness; novelty

Hypernyms ("freshness" is a kind of...):

originality (the quality of being new and original (not derived from something else))

Derivation:

fresh ((of a cycle) beginning or occurring again)

Sense 3

Meaning:

An alert and refreshed state

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

freshness; glow

Hypernyms ("freshness" is a kind of...):

good health; healthiness (the state of being vigorous and free from bodily or mental disease)

Derivation:

fresh (with restored energy)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Originality by virtue of being new and surprising

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

freshness; novelty

Hypernyms ("freshness" is a kind of...):

originality (the ability to think and act independently)

Derivation:

fresh (original and of a kind not seen before)

Sense 5

Meaning:

The trait of being rude and impertinent; inclined to take liberties

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

cheekiness; crust; freshness; gall; impertinence; impudence; insolence

Hypernyms ("freshness" is a kind of...):

discourtesy; rudeness (a manner that is rude and insulting)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "freshness"):

chutzpa; chutzpah; hutzpah ((Yiddish) unbelievable gall; insolence; audacity)

Derivation:

fresh (improperly forward or bold)

 Context examples 

“Why will not you write one yourself for us, Mr. Elton?” said she; “that is the only security for its freshness; and nothing could be easier to you.”

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

There was no freshness in the air.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Wilt find nothing in it to pay for the loss of thy own freshness.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"Come where there is some freshness, for a few moments," he said; "that house is a mere dungeon: don't you feel it so?"

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I am never contented, except with your freshness, my gentle Daisy.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

It could be used in potential applications such as assessing the freshness of foods, the quality of drugs, or even identifying counterfeit objects, all from a smartphone camera.

(Nanowires replace Newton’s famous glass prism, University of Cambridge)

I stretched out my hands, exulting in the freshness of these sensations; and in the act, I was suddenly aware that I had lost in stature.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

So the uniform remained at Portsmouth, and Edmund conjectured that before Fanny had any chance of seeing it, all its own freshness and all the freshness of its wearer's feelings must be worn away.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

She was looking remarkably well; her very regular, very pretty features, having the bloom and freshness of youth restored by the fine wind which had been blowing on her complexion, and by the animation of eye which it had also produced.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Five years after Jo's wedding, one of these fruitful festivals occurred, a mellow October day, when the air was full of an exhilarating freshness which made the spirits rise and the blood dance healthily in the veins.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)