bluishness
bluishness noun: the quality of being bluish.
Noun
bluishness (uncountable)
- The 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 79
- 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...1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter XIII, in Capricornia, New York: D. Appleton-Century, published 1943, pages 208–9
bluishness meaning in Urdu and Tagalog
bluishness in Urdu
- نیلاہٹ
bluishness in Tagalog
- the quality of somewhat blue
- pagkamabughaw
Origin of bluishness
From bluish + -ness.
Questions about bluishness
- What does bluishness mean?
- Bluishness means the quality of being bluish.
- What is bluishness in Urdu?
- Bluishness in Urdu is نیلاہٹ. See Bluishness meaning in Urdu.
- What part of speech is bluishness?
- Bluishness is a noun.
Words near bluishness in the dictionary
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