blueness

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/ˈbluːnəs/

noun

The quality or characteristic of being blue in color.

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Meanings

nounblueness (usually uncountable, plural bluenesses)

plural bluenesses

  1. uncountableusuallyThe 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.

    1905, H. G. Wells, Empire of the Ants
  2. uncountableusuallyMelancholy.

    Synonyms: blues, tristesse, mirthlessness, blues, crestfallenness, dejection, depression, despondency

Synonyms & antonyms

nounMelancholy.

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bluestristessemirthlessnessbluescrestfallennessdejectiondepressiondespondencydistressdolefulnessdownheartednessdreariheadforlornnessgriefheartsoreill-beinginfelicitymelancholiamelancholy

More synonyms by meaning

nounblue color or pigment; resembling the color of the clear sky in the daytime

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blue
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chromatic colorchromatic colourspectral color
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bluebluescrestfallennessdejectiondepressiondespondencydolefulnessdownheartednessdreariheadforlornnessgriefheartsoreill-beingmelancholiamelancholymiserymishappinessmournprosternationremorserueruthsadnesssorrowsorrowfulnesstristfulnessundelightunhappinesswoewoefarewretchedness

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

From blue + -ness.

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Translations

Arabic زُرْقَة
  • زُرْقَة (zurqa)quality or characteristic of being blue
Catalan blavor
  • blavorquality or characteristic of being blue
Dutch blauwheid
  • blauwheidquality or characteristic of being blue
Finnish sinisyys
  • sinisyysquality or characteristic of being blue
French bleueur, bleuité
  • bleueurquality or characteristic of being blue
  • bleuitéquality or characteristic of being blue
German Bläue
  • Bläuequality or characteristic of being blue
Polish niebieskość, błękitność
  • niebieskośćquality or characteristic of being blue
  • błękitnośćquality or characteristic of being blue
Romanian albăstrime
  • albăstrimequality or characteristic of being blue
Swedish blåhet, blånad
  • blåhetquality or characteristic of being blue
  • blånadquality or characteristic of being blue
Cite this entry
APA

blueness. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/blueness

MLA

“blueness.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/blueness. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “blueness,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/blueness.

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