Mellowness
//ˈmɛloʊnəs// noun
noun ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 The property of being mellow. countable, uncountable
"To mark this absolutism of change over the works of man is both pleasing and profitable, for what is more emotional than to observe the hoarness, the mellowness, and the natural final decay of objects whose beginnings date almost from the immemorial […] ?"
- 2 geniality, as through the effects of alcohol or marijuana wordnet
- 3 a soft shade of a color wordnet
- 4 the property of a sensation that is rich and pleasing wordnet
- 5 a taste (especially of fruit) that is ripe and of full flavor wordnet
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- 6 a feeling of good humor and sympathy through maturity or intoxication or a relaxed state wordnet
Example
More examples"The Cardinal is always a great singer, having a voice which, as European writers say, is almost equal to the Nightingale’s; but in this case the more stirring, martial quality of the strain had given place to an exquisite mellowness, as if it were, what I have no doubt it was, a song of love."
Etymology
From mellow + -ness.
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