bluenessn.

Brit.

/ˈbluːnəs/, U.S.

/ˈblunəs/

Forms: late Middle English blunesse, late Middle English–1600s blewnes, 1500s–1600s blewnesse, 1600s blewness, 1600s– blueness.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: blue adj., -ness suffix.

Etymology: < blue adj. + -ness suffix. With sense 1 compare bloness n., blaeness n.

I. Senses relating to the colour.

1. The discoloration of the skin characteristic of bruising, severe cold, etc.; (as a count noun) a discoloration of this type.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > blemish > [noun] > discoloration

bloness1382

lividity?a1425

livor?a1425

blueness1440

lividness1634

the world > matter > colour > named colours > blue or blueness > [noun] > lividness

blaeness1382

bloness1382

lividity?a1425

blueness1440

lividness1634

Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 41 Blunesse, supra in Blonesse [defining livor].

1491 O Ihesu Endles Swetnes (Caxton) sig. aiii^v Haue mynde of thy langour and blewnes of thy woundes.

1577 H. I. tr. H. Bullinger 50 Godlie Serm. I. i. vi. sig. C.vij^v/1 And with the blewnesse of his stripes are we healed.

1649 N. Culpeper Physicall Directory 28 Daisyes..take away bruises and blackness and blewness.

1678 T. Otway Friendship in Fashion ii. 14 Ay, and then that blewness under the eyes.

1742 C. Owen Ess. Nat. Hist. Serpents ii. 151 When it [sc. the Scolopendra] wounds any, there follows a Blueness about the affected Part.

1791 W. Thomson Mem. Serjeant D. Macleod 42 A blueness, or lividity in the skin, marks the place in the forehead where the wound was inflicted.

1824 Lancet 4 Jan. 14/2 A hollowness of the temples; blueness of the lips.

1874 Lancet 3 Oct. 497/1 On the 22nd severe cramps, algidity, and blueness of skin.

1918 Amer. State Trials 10 201/1 That the child was strangled to death was indicated by the lividity, the blueness of the parts.

1967 Jrnl. Pediatrics 70 414/1 Blueness had to be persistently noted on clinical observation.

2003 Edmonton (Alberta) Jrnl. (Nexis) 1 Dec. c1 Soak a cotton ball in white vinegar and apply to a bruise for one hour. The vinegar reduces the blueness and hastens healing.

2. gen. The state or quality of being blue in colour; blue quality, condition, or colour.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > colour > named colours > blue or blueness > [noun]

bluec1300

azurea1330

blueness1600

blueth1754

1600 E. Fairfax tr. T. Tasso Godfrey of Bulloigne vi. xc. 111 His azure robe the orient blewnesse lost.

a1672 P. Sterry Disc. Freedom of Will (1675) i. 28 The shady blueness in the clear Heavens above us.

1741 S. Richardson Pamela IV. vi. 35 The..fine thin Blueness given to the first Milk.

1790 S. Ireland Picturesque Tour through Holland II. v. 105 The principal fault to be found in his works is in the blueness of his distance, which is a tint rarely found in nature.

1832 C. Darwin Let. 26 Feb. in Corr. (1985) I. 203 The acacias or tamarinds are striking from blueness of their foliage.

1882 W. D. Howells in Longman's Mag. 1 51 A..sky..of more than Italian blueness.

1949 H. Gibbs Twilight in S. Afr. 126 The sudden rise of a table-mountain.., breaking the view and shaping the hot sky's blueness.

1984 C. Blaise N. Amer. Educ. iii. 136 I wanted to sink into the dancing blueness..of the water.

2003 R. MacFarlane Mountains of Mind (2004) viii. 254 There is still a beauty to be found in the landscape: the shadows of clouds smudging the plains, the blueness of the far distance, [etc.].

II. In extended senses of the adjective.

3. Indecency, obscenity. Cf. blue adj. 10.

ΘΚΠ

society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > moral or spiritual impurity > indecency > [noun]

inhonesty1481

scandal1622

nastiness1650

fulsomeness1684

indecency1692

impropriety1751

blue1824

paw-pawness1828

blueness1833

gaminess1854

suggestiveness1888

purple1930

1833 T. Carlyle in Foreign Q. Rev. Apr. 312 The occasional blueness of both [writings]..shall not altogether affright us.

1891 Sat. Rev. 8 Aug. 168/2 That tinge of ‘blueness’ which repels English propriety.

1998 Gazette (Montreal) 21 Nov. d5/1 Her words would make Mickey [Mouse] and most other critters blush. And it's not just the blue-ness of her material.

2007 New Yorker 22 Oct. 187/1 The rattling blueness of his language was the best thing in the picture.

†4. Academic learning pursued by a woman; the fact of being a bluestocking (bluestocking n. 1). Usually derogatory. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > pedantry > [noun] > female pedant, blue-stocking > condition of being

blueism1795

blue-stockingship1818

blueness1847

bas-bleuism1871

1847 Comic Almanack 178 Don't affect blueness, or music-madness, or any kind of literary or scientific mania.

1874 Sat. Rev. 10 Jan. 53/2 Not a tinge of what is vulgarly known as blueness was to be detected in her demeanour or her literary work.

1881 M. A. Lewis Two Pretty Girls III. 37 They might go in for some other line—fastness, or blueness, or music.

5. The state of being depressed or melancholy; an instance of this. Cf. blue adj. 4a.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > suffering > dejection > melancholy > [noun] > state of

melancholya1586

blueness1867

1867 W. James Let. 7 Nov. (1920) I. 120 I am in a mood of indigestion and blueness.

1911 J. C. Lincoln Cap'n Warren's Wards ix. 147 Before evening his blueness had disappeared.

1925 Evening Independent (Massillon, Ohio) 5 Aug. 6/1 I dreaded the spells of nervousness and blueness that came over me.

2009 Village Voice (N.Y.) (Nexis) 8 July She may feel..vague blueness over a boyfriend who hasn't worked out,..but little seems to really disturb her.

6. Music (originally U.S.). Melody, tone, mood, etc., that is characteristic of the blues (see blues n. 2); an instance of this.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > [noun] > qualities of music generally

formality1531

humoura1568

languor1751

morbidezza1833

pop1862

go1882

monophony1890

jazziness1916

blueness1929

linearity1947

funkiness1957

spikiness1962

1929 Los Angeles Times 3 Mar. iii. 23/5 The songs..are reproduced..in weird blueness of note and their prayerful meaning.

1949 R. Blesh Shining Trumpets (new ed.) ii. viii. 193 The beautiful, unveiled tone that on other occasions could transmit a blueness difficult to imagine.

1959 W. Russell in M. T. Williams Art of Jazz (1960) 36 Those devices that gave a feeling of blueness to his harmony.

1968 M. Stearns & J. Stearns Jazz Dance xv. 114 Songs that..contained a tinge of blueness in the melody.

1998 St. Louis (Missouri) Post-Dispatch (Nexis) 16 Nov. e1 Ira was..a lyricist whose words exactly expressed the vitality and blueness of his brother's novel jazz compositions.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2013; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	blueness
释义	bluenessn. Brit. /ˈbluːnəs/, U.S. /ˈblunəs/ Forms: late Middle English blunesse, late Middle English–1600s blewnes, 1500s–1600s blewnesse, 1600s blewness, 1600s– blueness. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: blue adj., -ness suffix. Etymology: < blue adj. + -ness suffix. With sense 1 compare bloness n., blaeness n. I. Senses relating to the colour. 1. The discoloration of the skin characteristic of bruising, severe cold, etc.; (as a count noun) a discoloration of this type. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > blemish > [noun] > discoloration bloness1382 lividity?a1425 livor?a1425 blueness1440 lividness1634 the world > matter > colour > named colours > blue or blueness > [noun] > lividness blaeness1382 bloness1382 lividity?a1425 blueness1440 lividness1634 Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 41 Blunesse, supra in Blonesse [defining livor]. 1491 O Ihesu Endles Swetnes (Caxton) sig. aiii^v Haue mynde of thy langour and blewnes of thy woundes. 1577 H. I. tr. H. Bullinger 50 Godlie Serm. I. i. vi. sig. C.vij^v/1 And with the blewnesse of his stripes are we healed. 1649 N. Culpeper Physicall Directory 28 Daisyes..take away bruises and blackness and blewness. 1678 T. Otway Friendship in Fashion ii. 14 Ay, and then that blewness under the eyes. 1742 C. Owen Ess. Nat. Hist. Serpents ii. 151 When it [sc. the Scolopendra] wounds any, there follows a Blueness about the affected Part. 1791 W. Thomson Mem. Serjeant D. Macleod 42 A blueness, or lividity in the skin, marks the place in the forehead where the wound was inflicted. 1824 Lancet 4 Jan. 14/2 A hollowness of the temples; blueness of the lips. 1874 Lancet 3 Oct. 497/1 On the 22nd severe cramps, algidity, and blueness of skin. 1918 Amer. State Trials 10 201/1 That the child was strangled to death was indicated by the lividity, the blueness of the parts. 1967 Jrnl. Pediatrics 70 414/1 Blueness had to be persistently noted on clinical observation. 2003 Edmonton (Alberta) Jrnl. (Nexis) 1 Dec. c1 Soak a cotton ball in white vinegar and apply to a bruise for one hour. The vinegar reduces the blueness and hastens healing. 2. gen. The state or quality of being blue in colour; blue quality, condition, or colour. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > named colours > blue or blueness > [noun] bluec1300 azurea1330 blueness1600 blueth1754 1600 E. Fairfax tr. T. Tasso Godfrey of Bulloigne vi. xc. 111 His azure robe the orient blewnesse lost. a1672 P. Sterry Disc. Freedom of Will (1675) i. 28 The shady blueness in the clear Heavens above us. 1741 S. Richardson Pamela IV. vi. 35 The..fine thin Blueness given to the first Milk. 1790 S. Ireland Picturesque Tour through Holland II. v. 105 The principal fault to be found in his works is in the blueness of his distance, which is a tint rarely found in nature. 1832 C. Darwin Let. 26 Feb. in Corr. (1985) I. 203 The acacias or tamarinds are striking from blueness of their foliage. 1882 W. D. Howells in Longman's Mag. 1 51 A..sky..of more than Italian blueness. 1949 H. Gibbs Twilight in S. Afr. 126 The sudden rise of a table-mountain.., breaking the view and shaping the hot sky's blueness. 1984 C. Blaise N. Amer. Educ. iii. 136 I wanted to sink into the dancing blueness..of the water. 2003 R. MacFarlane Mountains of Mind (2004) viii. 254 There is still a beauty to be found in the landscape: the shadows of clouds smudging the plains, the blueness of the far distance, [etc.]. II. In extended senses of the adjective. 3. Indecency, obscenity. Cf. blue adj. 10. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > moral or spiritual impurity > indecency > [noun] inhonesty1481 scandal1622 nastiness1650 fulsomeness1684 indecency1692 impropriety1751 blue1824 paw-pawness1828 blueness1833 gaminess1854 suggestiveness1888 purple1930 1833 T. Carlyle in Foreign Q. Rev. Apr. 312 The occasional blueness of both [writings]..shall not altogether affright us. 1891 Sat. Rev. 8 Aug. 168/2 That tinge of ‘blueness’ which repels English propriety. 1998 Gazette (Montreal) 21 Nov. d5/1 Her words would make Mickey [Mouse] and most other critters blush. And it's not just the blue-ness of her material. 2007 New Yorker 22 Oct. 187/1 The rattling blueness of his language was the best thing in the picture. †4. Academic learning pursued by a woman; the fact of being a bluestocking (bluestocking n. 1). Usually derogatory. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > pedantry > [noun] > female pedant, blue-stocking > condition of being blueism1795 blue-stockingship1818 blueness1847 bas-bleuism1871 1847 Comic Almanack 178 Don't affect blueness, or music-madness, or any kind of literary or scientific mania. 1874 Sat. Rev. 10 Jan. 53/2 Not a tinge of what is vulgarly known as blueness was to be detected in her demeanour or her literary work. 1881 M. A. Lewis Two Pretty Girls III. 37 They might go in for some other line—fastness, or blueness, or music. 5. The state of being depressed or melancholy; an instance of this. Cf. blue adj. 4a. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > dejection > melancholy > [noun] > state of melancholya1586 blueness1867 1867 W. James Let. 7 Nov. (1920) I. 120 I am in a mood of indigestion and blueness. 1911 J. C. Lincoln Cap'n Warren's Wards ix. 147 Before evening his blueness had disappeared. 1925 Evening Independent (Massillon, Ohio) 5 Aug. 6/1 I dreaded the spells of nervousness and blueness that came over me. 2009 Village Voice (N.Y.) (Nexis) 8 July She may feel..vague blueness over a boyfriend who hasn't worked out,..but little seems to really disturb her. 6. Music (originally U.S.). Melody, tone, mood, etc., that is characteristic of the blues (see blues n. 2); an instance of this. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > [noun] > qualities of music generally formality1531 humoura1568 languor1751 morbidezza1833 pop1862 go1882 monophony1890 jazziness1916 blueness1929 linearity1947 funkiness1957 spikiness1962 1929 Los Angeles Times 3 Mar. iii. 23/5 The songs..are reproduced..in weird blueness of note and their prayerful meaning. 1949 R. Blesh Shining Trumpets (new ed.) ii. viii. 193 The beautiful, unveiled tone that on other occasions could transmit a blueness difficult to imagine. 1959 W. Russell in M. T. Williams Art of Jazz (1960) 36 Those devices that gave a feeling of blueness to his harmony. 1968 M. Stearns & J. Stearns Jazz Dance xv. 114 Songs that..contained a tinge of blueness in the melody. 1998 St. Louis (Missouri) Post-Dispatch (Nexis) 16 Nov. e1 Ira was..a lyricist whose words exactly expressed the vitality and blueness of his brother's novel jazz compositions. 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