GREENNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does greenness mean? 

• GREENNESS (noun)
  The noun GREENNESS has 3 senses:

1. the lush appearance of flourishing vegetation

2. the state of not being ripe

3. green color or pigment; resembling the color of growing grass

  Familiarity information: GREENNESS used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GREENNESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The lush appearance of flourishing vegetation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

greenness; verdancy; verdure

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

cornucopia; profuseness; profusion; richness (the property of being extremely abundant)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The state of not being ripe

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

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

immatureness; immaturity (not having reached maturity)

Antonym:

ripeness (the state of being ripe)

Derivation:

green (not fully developed or mature; not ripe)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Green color or pigment; resembling the color of growing grass

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

green; greenness; viridity

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

chromatic color; chromatic colour; spectral color; spectral colour (a color that has hue)

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

greenishness (the property of being somewhat green)

sea green (the property of a moderate green color resembling the waters of the sea)

sage green (the color of sage leaves)

bottle green (dark to moderate or greyish green)

chrome green (a brilliant green color)

emerald (the green color of an emerald)

olive-green; olive green (a color that is lighter and greener than olive)

chartreuse; Paris green; pea green; yellow green; yellowish green (a shade of green tinged with yellow)

blue green; bluish green; teal (a blue-green color or pigment)

jade; jade green (a light green color varying from bluish green to yellowish green)

Derivation:

green (of the color between blue and yellow in the color spectrum; similar to the color of fresh grass)

 Context examples 

They found what they were looking for when they examined various milestones throughout the growing season, such as when the trees leafed out in spring and when they reached peak greenness.

(NASA Satellite Images Uncover Underground Forest Fungi, NASA)

The researchers' findings also contradict the idea that a commonly used index of vegetation greenness is a useful cue for migration timing in some locales.

(Seasonality of bird migration responds to environmental cues, NSF)

Scientists use the satellite-derived "greenness" of forest regions as one indicator of a forest's health.

(NASA finds drought may take toll on Congo rainforest, NASA)

They found that for every two per cent increase in greenness within 500 meters of their home, there was four per cent lower chance of an early death.

(People Living Near Parks in Cities Less Likely to Face Early Death, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The tool is called the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), which is a measure of the "greenness" of the landscape.

(Tracking Deer by NASA Satellite, NASA)

Women with the highest levels of vegetation, or greenness, near their homes had a 12 percent lower death rate compared to women with the lowest levels of vegetation near their homes.

(Greenness around homes linked to lower mortality, NIH)

My wretched feet, flayed and swollen to lameness by the sharp air of January, began to heal and subside under the gentler breathings of April; the nights and mornings no longer by their Canadian temperature froze the very blood in our veins; we could now endure the play-hour passed in the garden: sometimes on a sunny day it began even to be pleasant and genial, and a greenness grew over those brown beds, which, freshening daily, suggested the thought that Hope traversed them at night, and left each morning brighter traces of her steps.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Previous research used satellite-based measurements of vegetation greenness to investigate changes in the Amazon rainforest, notably the effects of severe short-term droughts in 2005 and 2010.

(NASA finds drought may take toll on Congo rainforest, NASA)

So by measuring the greenness of the mule deer habitat, scientists were able to mark the beginning and peak of the plant growing season – and the fawning season.

(Tracking Deer by NASA Satellite, NASA)

When researchers compared women in the areas with highest greenness to women in the lowest, they found a 41 percent lower death rate for kidney disease, 34 percent lower death rate for respiratory disease, and 13 percent lower death rate for cancer in the greenest areas.

(Greenness around homes linked to lower mortality, NIH)