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# blueness

«blueness» in Mova's school dictionary: **The quality of being blue, or how blue something is** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (blueness — uncountable)

### meaning for a pupil

1) The quality of being blue, or how blue something is. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blueness/#m1)

2) (rare, old-fashioned) A feeling of sadness, from «feeling blue». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blueness/#m2)

### sense 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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blueness/#x1)
- She painted the sky with deep blueness. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blueness/#x2)
- The blueness of his lips showed he was very cold. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blueness/#x3)
- We noticed the blueness of the glacier ice. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blueness/#x4)
- The poem talks about the blueness of the evening. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blueness/#x5)
- Sunlight scattering in air gives the sky its blueness. [tree →](https://md.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://md.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.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «blueness» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blueness/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.