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redness
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Word definitions for redness in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a response of body tissues to injury or irritation; characterized by pain and swelling and redness and heat [syn: inflammation , rubor ] the quality or state of the chromatic color resembling the hue of blood [syn: red ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English readnes ; see from red (adj.1) + -ness .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The quality of being red in color. 2 A red discoloration.
Usage examples of redness.
She read the same paragraph twice and then closed her eyes, rubbing her fists against their achy redness.
She discusses the redness of the blood as a sign of health, the characteristics of various excrementitious material as signs of disease, the degrees of fever, and the changes in the pulse.
She backed up a step, swatting at his sword with a hand whose essential broadness and redness was not disguised by the black shammy mitt covering it.
Physical facts, like resistance, sourness, redness, are accessible to everyone.
In its globby piled-on redness, it was a scarlet letter embroidered by an obsessive compulsive.
The reason is that there really is a difficulty to be faced in relating within the same system of entities the redness of the fire with the agitation of the molecules.
Then, after carefully choosing the shadiest side of the verandah, he would stretch his legs at full length, dangle his feet over the railings, call for a glass of grog to wash the dust out of his throat, thereby intensifying the redness of a sun-baked face, and would finally set himself to the perusal of his correspondence.
The freon vents were still belching swirling mist through the redness, and from the higher-pitched drone of the generators, Susan knew Crypto was running on backup power.
Suspended, drifting in claustrophobic redness around him were the skeletons of the hapless Ragu plus countless other bodies whose lives the Don had taken.
They both heard the sound of rotors quickening, and across the snow from somewhere out of sight a redness was splashed from helicopter lights.
Away in the distance before and behind, the green boughs, now turning in places to a coppery redness, shot their broad arches across the track.
He rode on, the two horses following, riding doves up out of the pools of standing water and the sun descending out of the dark discolored overcast to the west where its redness ran down the narrow band of sky above the mountains like blood falling through water and the desert fresh from the rain turning gold in the evening light and then deepening to dark, a slow inkening over of the bajada and the rising hills and the stark stone length of the cordilleras darkening far to the south in Mexico.
In addition to the brick-colored final coat there were others: dabs of green to control redness, pinks to add blush, blues above the eyes.
Continuing to read out the analyses, Rosetti said tests on gum tissue from the mouths of the second French victim and the girls in London and Vienna gave areca catechu extract as the cause of the heightened mouth redness he'd found in each.
Algates* they beginne for to glow, *at least For redness have I none, right well I know, In my visage.