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blueness

[ bloo-nis ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

First recorded in 1485–95; blue + -ness

Cyanotypes are produced by exposure to light, but their deep blueness gives them an oceanic quality.

It is tempting to think the cats’ blueness was tied to some flaw that left them unable to compete with their bright orange kin.

Sometimes the satin was broidered with silver wheat, sometimes with pearls, but the blueness of it never faded or lost favor.

And yet he knew that its undulating blueness hid hard, relentless rock, as unyielding as the very hand of death itself.

We had seen Lake Michigan, of a light transparent blueness, with fire ripples chasing from the sunset.

The air blew soft, and great shadow clouds ran in an upper current across the deepest blueness I had seen in many a day.

Then the sky resumes the fleckless blueness which characterises it during the greater part of the year.

April 19, 2024tortuous

[tawr-choo-uhs ]

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