orangeness

1 4.9

The quality of looking like the color between red and yellow

noun
/ˈɔrɪndʒnəs/

: naranjidad

She admired the orangeness of the ripe oranges displayed at the market.

Oh my God, feel like this dropper that I put on kind of neutralized out the orangeness and color a little bit.

Examples

To his shock, she playfully curtsies, revealing more of Klaus's rust-orangeness in the background; he withdraws toward the elevator; with a whoosh and a click, her door is closed.

Fiction book (2000)
What was it doing there in its orangeness?

Fiction book (1999)
This has got some some Orangeness on its grill.
Oh my God, feel like this dropper that I put on kind of neutralized out the orangeness and color a little bit.

Laura Lee
I don't know, the Orangeness made me think India, but it didn't taste like Indian food.
The orangeness of the sunset painted the sky in vibrant hues.
In autumn, the orangeness of the falling leaves creates a beautiful landscape.

Synonyms

orange

vsorangeness

66 1.0

A color between red and yellow like ripe citrus fruit

is the abstract quality or state of having that hue

Surface Forms

orangeness singular

orangenesses plural

Morphology

orangeness = orange (transparent) = orange + ness

The noun is a straightforward formation from the adjective 'orange' with the productive noun-forming suffix '-ness' meaning 'the quality of being orange'.

Etymology

Orangeness comes from orange, which first named the fruit brought to Europe from Asia and whose name came through Arabic from an old Indian word for the fruit. So the color was later named after the fruit, and orangeness means the quality of being 'orange' in color.