brownness

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The brown color of something like wood or bread

noun
/ˈbraʊn.nəs/

: marrón

Her beautiful painting captured the rich brownness of autumn leaves.
the brownness of his eyes

It's a certain way of talking about the atoms and the neurons, etcetera, that make up you, just like the hardness or the brownness of this table.

Examples

All the tender brownness belonged to the eyes.

Fiction book (2000)
And then there is her brownness.

Fiction book (1996)
The incredible brownness of his eyes.

Fiction book (1998)
He had come inside her door and stood there staring, taking in the beauty of her brownness, which was like no other.

Fiction book (1995)
The desert spread out below, a flat plane of brownness stretching away into a hazy infinity.

Fiction book (1994)
Lucas and Connell were sitting on a couple of slightly damaged green office chairs, facing a couch whose only notable quality was its brownness.

Fiction book (1994)
It's a certain way of talking about the atoms and the neurons, etcetera, that make up you, just like the hardness or the brownness of this table.

Lex Fridman
His father laughed, not unkindly, then grabbed a rusted bucket from the prow and dove into the rippling surrounding brownness.

Fiction book (1996)
Near one corner, partially cut off by the gray hump of a particularly old and mossy whale, the brownness gave way to green, an oasis sprinkled throughout with white dabs of roofs and shiny pencil lines of streets.

Fiction book (1994)
The brownness of the soil was essential for growing healthy plants.

Synonyms

light brown

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A pale brown color like dry sand in sunlight

is the overall quality not only pale tones

tan

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11 1.0

A light brown colour like leather

is the broad color quality not limited to light topaz tones

deep brown

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4 1.0

A dark shade of brown like chocolate

is the general quality rather than a specific tone

warm brown

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A brown colour with red or yellow tones that looks cosy

is the neutral quality, not focused on warm undertones

grayish brown

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A light dull brown that looks slightly gray

is the pure color quality rather than a grey-mixed hue

brownish yellow

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A yellow color with a little brown that looks warm and dull

is the pure color quality rather than a yellow-dominated tint

Vandyke brown

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Specialized

1 8.7

A dark reddish brown color used in painting and art

is the general color quality beyond artistic pigment use

caramel brown

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2.6

A medium to dark brown color like caramel

is the general quality rather than this specific tone

Surface Forms

brownness singular

brownnesses plural

Morphology

brownness = brown (transparent) = brown + ness

Standard nominalization forming 'the quality or state of being brown' from the adjective 'brown'.

Etymology

Brownness comes from the old word brown, which meant 'brown' and is like the German word braun. It simply names the state of being 'brown', the color you see in autumn leaves, a bread crust, or someone's eyes.