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Definition: Yellowness |
YellownessNoun1. The quality or state of the chromatic color resembling the hue of sunflowers or ripe lemons. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "yellowness" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1374. (references) |
Synonym: YellownessSynonym: yellow (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Yellowness |
| English words defined with "yellowness": Jeterus ♦ Yellows. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "yellowness": Mejarkon, Me-jarkon. (references) |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Joad took a few steps, and the flourlike dust spurted up in front of his new yellow shoes, and the yellowness was disappearing under gray dust. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Yellowness" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Yellowness" is used about 8 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 8 | 124,375 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
index yellowness | 3 |
yellowness | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "yellowness"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | e verdhë. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | الصفرة. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | страхливост (cowardice, poltroonery), низост (abjection, baseness, dirtiness, infamy, iniquity, manginess, meanness, squalor, turpitude, villainy), жълтина. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | teint jaune, lâcheté, couleur jaune. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | schlappheit (cowardice, exhaustion, fatigue, floppiness, languor, limpness, listlessness), gelbliche färbung, gelb (amber, yellow), feigheit (cowardice, cowardliness, gutlessness, nervelessness, pusillanimity, recreance, wimpiness, yellow). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κιτρινάδα, κιτρινίλα (paleness, sallowness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | צו"ב, צ"יבות. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | sárgaság (icterus, jaundice, yellows). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | buighid (bile, biliary, gall, sallowness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | yellownessay tom amarelado, cor amarela. (various references) gãlbenealã (paleness, pallidness). (various references) желтизна. (various references) žutilo (yellow). (various references) abundancia del color amarillo. (various references) sarılık (icterus, jaundice, yellow). (various references) жовтушність, жовтизна (icterus, yellow). (various references) melynder. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Old French | 900-1400 | jaunisse. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Words rhyming with "yellowness" (pronounced 'Yel"low*ness'): Abjectedness, Abjectness, Ableness, Abominableness, Abortiveness, Abruptness, Absentness, Absoluteness, Absorptiveness, Abstemiousness, Abstersiveness, Abstractedness, Abstractiveness, Abstractness, Abstruseness, Absurdness, Abusiveness, Acceptableness, Accessariness, Accessoriness, Accidentalness, Accommodableness, Accommodateness, Accurateness, Accustomedness, Acidness, Acquaintedness, Acquisitiveness, Acrimoniousness, Activeness, Actualness, Acuteness, Adaptedness, Adaptiveness, Adaptness, Addictedness, Addle-patedness, Adeptness, Adequateness, Adhesiveness, Admirableness, Adorableness, Adroitness, Adultness, Advantageousness, Adventurousness, Adverseness, Advisable-ness, Advisedness, Affableness. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-l-l-n-o-s-s-w-y" | |
-2 letters: wellness. | |
-3 letters: lowness, swollen, woeness, yellows. | |
-4 letters: lenses, leones, lessen, lesson, lonely, losels, newels, selles, selsyn, slowly, snells, solely, sowens, sweeny, swells, weensy, yellow. | |
-5 letters: enols, enows, lenes, lenos, lense, leone, loess, losel, loses, lossy, lowes, lowly, lowse, lyses, nelly, newel, newly, newsy, noels, noses, nosey, owsen, seels, seely, selle, sells, sense, slews, sloes. | |
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