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Freshness

Freshness \Fresh"ness\, n. The state of being fresh.

The Scots had the advantage both for number and freshness of men.
--Hayward.

And breathe the freshness of the open air.
--Dryden.

Her cheeks their freshness lose and wonted grace.
--Granville.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
freshness

late 14c., from fresh (adj.1) + -ness.

Wiktionary
freshness

n. The state or quality of being fresh.

WordNet
freshness
  1. n. the property of being pure and fresh (as if newly made); not stale or deteriorated; "she loved the freshness of newly baked bread"; "the freshness of the air revived him" [ant: staleness]

  2. originality by virtue of being refreshingly novel [syn: novelty]

  3. an alert and refreshed state [syn: glow]

  4. originality by virtue of being new and surprising [syn: novelty]

  5. the trait of being rude and impertinent; inclined to take liberties [syn: crust, gall, impertinence, impudence, insolence, cheekiness]

Wikipedia
Freshness

Freshness may refer to:

  • Post harvest freshness
  • Freshness (album), a 1995 album by Casiopea
  • Freshness (cryptography), certainty that replayed messages in a replay attack on a protocol will be detected as such
Freshness (album)

Freshness is the twenty-eighth studio album by the jazz fusion group Casiopea recorded and released in 1995.

Usage examples of "freshness".

Roman, eyes large, black, and sparkling, and a ruddiness in his cheeks that was the more a grace, for his complexion was of the brownest, not of that dusky dun colour which excludes the idea of freshness, but of that clear, olive gloss which, glowing with life, dazzles perhaps less than fairness, and yet pleases more, when it pleases at all.

That the air purifiers were functioning perfectly was evident from the forestlike freshness of the air.

It was noble sport galloping over the plain in the dewy freshness of the morning, but our part of the hunt ended in disaster and disgrace, for a wounded buffalo bull chased the passenger Bemis nearly two miles, and then he forsook his horse and took to a lone tree.

In one hangs a kakemono, or wall-picture, a painting of a blossoming branch of the cherry on white silk--a perfect piece of art, which in itself fills the room with freshness and beauty.

Reasoning by sound analogy, the heavens and hells of the future state are not monotonous circles each filled with mutually reflecting personalities, but one fenceless spiritual world of distinctive, ever varying degrees, sympathetic and contrasted life, circulating freshness, variety of attractions and repulsions, divine advancement.

The spring crocus lifted its head in moist midgrasses of the meadow, rejoiced with freshness.

One effect, I fancy, would be to make the elder of the operas sound younger than its companion, because of the greater variety and freshness, as well as dramatic vigor, of its music.

Marlborough, preeminently great as he certainly was, nevertheless led the combined forces of England and of Holland, in the freshness of their strength and the fulness of their financial ability, against prostrate France, with a treasury depleted, a people worn out, discouraged, and dejected.

The turf, that grew under the woods, was inlaid with a variety of wild flowers and perfumed herbs, and, on the opposite margin of the stream, whose current diffused freshness beneath the shades, rose a grove of lemon and orange trees.

To renew alignment every time with the freshness that it needs to make up a living world, the burst of energy that comes out of those very alignments is automatically rerouted to reinforce some choice alignments.

Careless of opinion, obeying only the dictates of his own heart and mind, and following also the intuitions of unerring instinct, which was superior to the understanding of those who thought it their duty to oppose him, he married, as Boaz married Ruth, a young woman, industrious, full of freshness and life, already completely devoted to his service, and admirably fitted to satisfy that craving for order, peace, quiet, and moral tranquillity, which to him were above all things indispensable.

Land of day and night -- no morning freshness, and no afternoon, When the great white sun in rising bringeth summer heat in June.

They ate with the Shona officers in the mess, and the fare was the same as that served to detainees with the addition of a stew of stringy meat of indeterminate origin and dubious freshness.

Know, then, innocent eastern friend, that in benighted regions of the west, where the mud is of unfathomable and sublime depth, roads are made of round rough logs, arranged transversely side by side, and coated over in their pristine freshness with earth, turf, and whatsoever may come to hand, and then the rejoicing native calleth it a road, and straightway essayeth to ride thereupon.

If insect or other animal tracks are superposed on the hoofprints, this also argues against their freshness.