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n. - The property of being somewhat the color of grass.

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Usage examples (5)
  • There were blurs which were certainly not herds of cattle but ought to be, and here and there those pockmarks of greenishness which might be mesquite or something similar.
  • Progressiveness, like greenishness and truthiness, abounded.
  • All favor diversity, affordable housing, mass transit and greenishness (a close relative of truthiness).
  • In a period when greenishness is suddenly in vogue, the council backers (chiefly Bates and Capitelli) of the attempted emasculation of Berkeley's current effective...
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