🌱 Rich vegetation 🟩 Green color 🍏 Not ripe 🌍 Eco-friendliness

greenness

3.9

How friendly something is to the environment

noun
/ˈɡriːn.nəs/

: sostenibilidad

Many people are becoming more aware of the greenness of the products they purchase.

Examples

The city's commitment to sustainability has greatly contributed to its overall greenness.
So net there is an increase in greenness all over the planet.
What is its degree of greenness?

Fiction book (1998)
Overall, results did not provide evidence of an association between surrounding greenness and gestational age.

Academic text (2012)
Measures of surrounding greenness during 2003 and 2007 were highly correlated.

Academic text (2012)
The greenness of the new park is a significant improvement for the urban landscape.

Synonyms

sustainability

vsgreenness

66 4.4

The ability to continue over time without using up resources or causing harm

is specifically the degree of avoiding environmental harm rather than broad endurance

environmental sustainability

vsgreenness

2 4.4

Using natural resources in ways that keep nature healthy for a long time

is the overall measure of avoiding environmental harm rather than specific resource practices

green state

vsgreenness

3.9

A country, city, or company that acts in ways good for the environment

is the general quality of avoiding environmental harm for any object or action

How Sustainable

sustainability

66 4.4

greenness

3.9

Surface Forms

greenness singular

greennesses plural

Morphology

greenness = green (transparent) = green + ness

Morphologically regular formation from 'green' + '-ness'; 'green' as 'environmentally friendly' is a common extension, so the noun denotes that quality.

Etymology

Greenness comes from the word green (the colour of plants) and the ending -ness, and because green makes us think of nature, we now use greenness to mean how 'environmentally friendly' something is. So the greenness of a product shows how much it avoids harm to the environment.