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# blueness

noun (blueness — uncountable)

«blueness» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. The quality of being blue, or how blue something is. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blueness/#m1)
2. (rare, old-fashioned) A feeling of sadness, from «feeling blue». [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blueness/#m2)

### In the lessons

In poems and descriptive writing it describes the colour of the sky, the sea or eyes: «the blueness of the sky». In science it can come up when explaining why the sky looks blue. It is a descriptive, slightly literary word.

### Examples

- The blueness of the sea surprised us. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blueness/#x1)
- She painted the sky with deep blueness. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blueness/#x2)
- The blueness of his lips showed he was very cold. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blueness/#x3)
- We noticed the blueness of the glacier ice. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blueness/#x4)
- The poem talks about the blueness of the evening. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blueness/#x5)
- Sunlight scattering in air gives the sky its blueness. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blueness/#x6)
- The dragon certainly was beautiful, with his deep, clear Prussian blueness, and his rainbow-colored glitter. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blueness/#x7)

### Note

Uncountable noun made from «blue» + -ness. Keep the final e of blue: blue-ness. Health note: blueness of the lips or skin can be a sign that someone needs help quickly.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «blueness» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blueness/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«blueness» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/blueness.html) on Mova free.