You're mistaken: There is no problem in providing operational definitions for "blueness". From Wordnik.com. [Bunny and a Book] Reference
In precisely what sense do universals (such as blueness, goodness, cowness, squareness, and threeness) exist?. From Wordnik.com. [Is Mathematics for Real?] Reference
But was it the "blueness" of it, or was it the fact that the sentiment was touching on a past journey of their own?. From Wordnik.com. [Charles Karel Bouley: "Spring Awakening"-- Teen Masturbation, Pregnancy, Incest, Suicide and Rape In A Catchy Musical] Reference
Measuring Tahoe's blues Jon Christensen accompanies scientists trying to measure the opacity and "blueness" of Lake Tahoe. From Wordnik.com. [High Country News - Most Recent] Reference
Add to this breezy grey-blueness with a clean freshness. From Wordnik.com. [rivers Diary Entry] Reference
He saw his reflection and rubbed the blueness of his cheek. From Wordnik.com. [Stallion Gate]
We remember the perfect blueness of the sky that Tuesday morning. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 11, 2001] Reference
Mary's charm was in that of duskiness of hair and blueness of eye. From Wordnik.com. [The Trumpeter Swan] Reference
At six o'clock in the cars all is gloom, blueness and sorrow faces. From Wordnik.com. [Evening Round Up More Good Stuff Like Pep] Reference
As soon as I've achieved orangeness, I'm going to try for blueness. From Wordnik.com. [idiot-milk Diary Entry] Reference
He stood straight; his eyes had the deep, varying blueness of lake water. From Wordnik.com. [Defenders of Democracy; contributions from representative men and women of letters and other arts from our allies and our own country, edited by the Gift book committee of the Militia of Mercy] Reference
Its deep blueness rested the eye, wearied by the perpetual glare of the sand. From Wordnik.com. [The Fifth Battalion Highland Light Infantry in the War 1914-1918] Reference
A vague blueness flickered and bobbed; eddies gave back the least sheen of it. From Wordnik.com. [Hokas Pokas]
The very waves had lost their blueness and were tinted with a leaden, muddy hue. From Wordnik.com. [Sweetapple Cove] Reference
The dome was a smooth, blue sky, and the smooth blueness continued down the walls. From Wordnik.com. [The Players] Reference
It says: "Dilatation leads to dropsy, shortness of breath and blueness of the face.". From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, August 4th, 1920] Reference
Upon the Goddess of Minerva was bestowed a surname to signify the blueness of her eyes. From Wordnik.com. [Cupology How to Be Entertaining] Reference
Between the attacks, puffiness of the face and eyes and blueness of the tongue persist. From Wordnik.com. [The Home Medical Library, Volume I (of VI)] Reference
A storm could hardly blow up out of such blueness, so the masque is bound to be heavenly. From Wordnik.com. [Clair de Lune A Play in Two Acts and Six Scenes] Reference
They certainly will not sit in lawless indifference if they know the blueness of discontent. From Wordnik.com. [Hold Up Your Heads, Girls! : Helps for Girls, in School and Out] Reference
Her eyes were not large, but their intense blueness made them a significant feature of her face. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Harlowe's Problem] Reference
The blueness of a wound shall wipe away evils: and stripes in the more inward parts of the belly. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 22: Proverbs The Challoner Revision] Reference
The Gulf Stream can be traced along the shores of the United States by the blueness of the water. From Wordnik.com. [Higher Lessons in English A work on english grammar and composition] Reference
'It's young meat,' replied he; 'any one who is a judge of meat can tell that from the blueness of its bone.'. From Wordnik.com. [Inns and Taverns of Old London] Reference
"But, domina," said Apollodorus Siculus, "he is quite without harm — no bruises, no swellings, no blueness.". From Wordnik.com. [The Grass Crown]
The bright sunlight in the chasms of the cumulus, the brilliance of the white clouds, the blueness of the sky. From Wordnik.com. [The Rainbow and the Rose]
His raw-boned cheeks and sockets were hollowed, still, but a healthy pink had replaced that deathly blueness. From Wordnik.com. [Science Fiction Hall of Fame]
The very blueness of the sky and sparkle of the sunshine was tender after the brazen glitter of the African sun. From Wordnik.com. [Antony Gray,—Gardener] Reference
There was nothing left of the chuckle on it: the eerie blueness stripped away the fat, leaving it hard and serious. From Wordnik.com. [The Alamut Ambush]
As the sun rose, the blueness to the north diminished, and it could be seen that the mounds were just low brown hills. From Wordnik.com. [Lonesome Dove]
Always, somewhere to the north, there was a swath of blueness, with white clouds floating in it like petals in a pond. From Wordnik.com. [Lonesome Dove]
As with all lightbulbs, CFLs come in different "temperatures" — that is their yellowness, blueness, or whiteness. From Wordnik.com. [Buzzword: Socket Saturation] Reference
And yet he knew that its undulating blueness hid hard, relentless rock, as unyielding as the very hand of death itself. From Wordnik.com. [High Noon A New Sequel to 'Three Weeks' by Elinor Glyn] Reference
There is no trace; of sweetness in the constituents of sugar of lead, or of blueness in the constituents of blue vitriol. From Wordnik.com. [Theism or Atheism The Great Alternative] Reference
Wallingford had never spent time with Mary in the hard midmorning light; even the blueness in her eyes was newly clarifying. From Wordnik.com. [The Fourth Hand]
I watched the clouds let loose rain that came like mist to my face, and I felt myself warm against the gray-blueness of that day. From Wordnik.com. [overtaken Diary Entry] Reference
Only there was a deepening grey in the hard blueness above them, and the breathless heat, even at this time of day, was stifling. From Wordnik.com. [The Workingman's Paradise An Australian Labour Novel] Reference
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