grayness
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- noun
- /ˈɡreɪnəs/
- US
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grisura
- The artist used different shades of paint to capture the grayness of the cloudy sky.
It'll be a pale blue dot pixel, but the moon's Gray grayness will be intermixed with that pixel.
- It'll be a pale blue dot pixel, but the moon's Gray grayness will be intermixed with that pixel.
- And then in winter, as we've spoken about, each of the rafts goes along through the grayness, the darkness, the great waves, the storms.
- It's like everything becomes so far apart and so cold and so perfectly mixed that it's like homogeneous grayness.
- And the nice thing is that unlike the very grayness of the best stuff, this like, warmer wood actually matches the legs on our couch.
Examples
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The fatigue in the squad was almost palpable, a weary grayness that dulled the ride back to camp.
Fiction book (2001) -
Troi's eyes were starved for light, and even that faint grayness was welcome.
Fiction book (1992) -
His face had an overall grayness to it that went perfectly with the rest of him.
Fiction book (1990) -
I grew up in a house with no beauty, but grayness.
Fiction book (1992) -
The result is a mixture of grayness and light.
Fiction book (1998) -
Instead, they were eventually forgotten, lost in grayness and silence.
Fiction book (1992) -
Instead of farmland and villages, we entered the grayness of the city.
Academic text (2000) -
East, the sun was breaking through the diminishing storm clouds, the grayness of dawn giving way to golden daylight.
Fiction book (1993) -
Wendy floated up through layers of soft grayness, not running from the darkness, but following the path of least resistance.
Fiction book (1991) -
Every morning, the relentless grayness of Ende pushed Linna closer to the brink of despair.
Fiction book (2000)
Synonyms
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A neutral color between black and white like a cloudy sky
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A very dark gray like the color of charcoal
A very pale gray color like the powder left after a fire
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Etymology
The word grayness is simply gray + -ness, where gray comes from an old English word for the dull colour and -ness means 'state'. So grayness is the 'state of being gray', the colour between white and black.