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yellowness en · NOUN

Etymology

From Middle English ȝalownes; equivalent to yellow + -ness.

Meanings

1. (uncountable, usually) The state, quality, or degree of being yellow in colour.
   • 1924, Herbert Jenkins, The Bindles on the Rocks, London: Herbert Jenkins, Chapter VI, Part II, […] lemonade of a yellowness sufficient to convince the most inveterate pessimist of the presence of the lemon.
   • […] at least there would be no harm in getting a few bottles of “stuff” from him, since if these proved useless it would still be possible to return to the Purifying Pills, which kept you alive, if they did not remove the yellowness. 1872, George Eliot, Middlemarch, London: William Blackwood & Sons, Volume III, Book V, Chapter 45, p. 25:
2. (uncountable, usually) Cowardice.
3. (obsolete, uncountable, usually) Jealousy.
   • The vndiscreet carriage of some lasciuious gallant […] by his often frequenting of an house, and bold vnseemly gestures, may make a breach, and by his ouer familiarity, if he be inclined to yellownesse, colour him quite out. 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition 3, section 3, member 1, subsection 2, page 680:
   • My humour shall not cool: I will incense Page to deal with poison; I will possess him with yellowness, for the revolt of mine is dangerous: that is my true humour. c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:

Forms

Translations (18)

ca grogor (state or quality of being yellow) · de Gelbe (state or quality of being yellow) · ar صُفْرَة (state or quality of being yellow) · sga buide (state or quality of being yellow) · te పచ్చన (state or quality of being yellow) · fi keltaisuus (state or quality of being yellow) · it giallore (state or quality of being yellow) · tr sarılık (state or quality of being yellow) · da gulhed (state or quality of being yellow) · sv gulhet (state or quality of being yellow) · ka სიყვითლე (state or quality of being yellow) · ru желтизна́ (state or quality of being yellow) · sk žlť (state or quality of being yellow) · lv dzeltenums (state or quality of being yellow) · sv gulnad (state or quality of being yellow) · te పచ్చదనము (state or quality of being yellow) · es amarillez (state or quality of being yellow) · gl amareleza (state or quality of being yellow)