bluishness

English

Etymology

From bluish +‎ -ness.

Noun

bluishness (uncountable)

1. The quality of being bluish.
   • 1922, Ivan Bunin, “Son”, in S. S. Koteliansky, Leonard Woolf, transl., The Gentleman from San Francisco and Other Stories‎^[1], Richmond: Leonard & Virginia Woolf, page 79:

     […] the blinds and curtains made it almost dark. Still from the pale bluishness which filtered in one could see that it was very early.

   • 1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter XIII, in Capricornia‎^[2], New York: D. Appleton-Century, published 1943, pages 208–9:

     Should a stranger suppose that they were white, he would soon be told that they were halfcaste. Should one doubt it, as passing strangers sometimes did, the children would be seized if unprotected and have the whites of their eyes and bases of their finger-nails searched for that bluishness which is supposed to be the evidence of black blood.

Coordinate terms

• blueness

Translations

the quality of somewhat blue

• French: bleuâtreté f
• German: Bläulichkeit
• Volapük: blövil

Anagrams

• blushiness