greenness vs verdure what difference

what is difference between greenness and verdure

English

Etymology

From Old English grennes, equivalent to green +‎ -ness.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɹiːnnəs/

Noun

greenness (usually uncountable, plural greennesses)

1. The state or quality of being green; green colour. [from 8th c.]
   • 1950, Mervyn Peake, Gormenghast

     Her crimson dress inflames grey corridors, or flaring in a sunshaft through high branches makes of the deep green shadows a greenness darker yet, and a darkness greener.

2. (now rare) Vitality, freshness. [from 9th c.]
3. Inexperience. [from 16th c.]
   • 1977, Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace, New York Review Books 2006, p. 152:

     The chances were that, sooner or later, such greenness would inevitably lead to a graver disaster.

4. The fact of being environmentally or ecologically conscious; commitment to environmental conservation. [from 1980s]

Translations

Anagrams

• Negrenses, sengreens

English

Etymology

From Middle English verdure, from Old French verdure.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈvɜːd͡ʒə/, /ˈvɜːdjə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈvɝd͡ʒɚ/
• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)dʒə(ɹ)
• Homophone: verger (one pronunciation)
• Hyphenation: ver‧dure

Noun

verdure (countable and uncountable, plural verdures)

1. The greenness of lush or growing vegetation; also: the vegetation itself.
   • 1610, The Tempest, by Shakespeare

     […] now he was / The ivy which had hid my princely trunk, / And suck’d my verdure out on’t.

   • 1813, Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, Modern Library Edition (1995), page 142

     The five weeks which she had now passed in Kent had made a great difference in the country, and every day was adding to the verdure of the early trees.

   • To her belonged Amber Spring, the water which gave verdure and beauty to the village and made living possible on that wild purple upland waste.
2. (by extension) A condition of health and vigour.

Related terms

• verdant
• verdurous

Translations

Verb

verdure (third-person singular simple present verdures, present participle verduring, simple past and past participle verdured)

1. (transitive) To cover with verdure.

Derived terms

• reverdure

Dutch

Verb

verdure

1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of verduren

French

Etymology

vert +‎ -ure

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vɛʁ.dyʁ/
• Rhymes: -yʁ

Noun

verdure f (plural verdures)

1. verdure, greenness

Further reading

• “verdure” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /verˈdu.re/
• Rhymes: -ure

Noun

verdure f pl

1. plural of verdura

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