Meanings
- uncountableThe quality of being bluish.
[…] the blinds and curtains made it almost dark. Still from the pale bluishness which filtered in one could see that it was very early.
1922, Ivan Bunin, “Son”, in S. S. Koteliansky, Leonard Woolf, transl., The Gentleman from San Francisco and Other Stories, Richmond: Leonard & Virginia Woolf, page 791 more example
Should a stranger suppose that they were white, he would soon be told that they were halfcaste. Should one doubt it, as passing strangers sometimes did, the children would be seized if unprotected and have the whites of their eyes and bases of their finger-nails searched for that bluishness which is supposed to be the evidence of black blood.
1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter XIII, in Capricornia, New York: D. Appleton-Century, published 1943, pages 208–9
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Translations
French bleuâtreté
- bleuâtretéthe quality of somewhat blue
German Bläulichkeit
- Bläulichkeitthe quality of somewhat blue
Polish błękit, błękitność
- błękitthe quality of somewhat blue
- błękitnośćthe quality of somewhat blue
- modrośćthe quality of somewhat blue
Tagalog pagkamabughaw
- pagkamabughawthe quality of somewhat blue
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bluishness. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bluishness
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