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mauveness en · NOUN

Etymology

From mauve + -ness.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The state or condition of being mauve; mauve colour.
    • They resemble amethysts, and vary in colour from an opaque milky mauveness to a clear deep purple. 1896, George Augustus Sala, Edmund Hodgson Yates, Temple bar:
    • The tarnished mirror on the wall distorted and reproved her angry face in its mild mauveness. 1923, Elizabeth Bowen, “Coming Home”, in Encounters, page 195: