English
Etymology
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-dyé-
Proto-Indo-European *-tus English freshness
From fresh + -ness.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈfɹɛʃnəs/
- Hyphenation: fresh‧ness
Noun
freshness (usually uncountable, plural freshnesses)
- The state or quality of being fresh.
- Synonym: verdure (literary)
the clear freshness of water from a mountain spring
- (UK) Impudence; cheek.
1923, Ernest Bramah, The Eyes of Max Carrados:"Now we're getting on, sir," was the mollified admission. "You mustn't mind a bit of freshness, so to speak. You took me by surprise, that's what it was, and I've been wound up ever since that happened."
Translations
freshness
- Aramaic:
- Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܬܵܙܘܼܬܵܐ f (tazuta)
- Belarusian: све́жасць f (svjéžascʹ)
- Catalan: frescor f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 新鮮 / 新鲜 (zh) (xīnxiān)
- Czech: čerstvost f, svěžest f
- Danish: friskhed c
- Dutch: frisheid (nl) f, versheid (nl) f
- Esperanto: freŝeco
- Finnish: raikkaus
- French: fraîcheur (fr) f
- Galician: frescor m
- German: Frische (de) f
- Greek: φρεσκάδα (el) f (freskáda)
- Hebrew: רעננות (raa`nanut)
- Hindi: नूतनता (hi) f (nūtantā), नवीनता (hi) f (navīntā)
- Hungarian: frisseség (hu)
- Italian: freschezza (it) f
- Japanese: 新鮮さ (ja) (しんせんさ, shinsensa)
- Latvian: svaigums m, spirgtums m
- Māori: kaimatatanga
- Mauritian Creole: freser
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: friskhet m or f
- Polish: świeżość (pl) f
- Portuguese: frescura (pt) f, frescor (pt)
- Romanian: prospețime (ro) f
- Russian: све́жесть (ru) f (svéžestʹ)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: свјежина f (Ijekavian), свежина f (Ekavian)
- Latin: svježina (sh) f (Ijekavian), svežina f (Ekavian)
- Spanish: frescura (es) f, frescor f
- Swedish: friskhet (sv) c, fräschör (sv) c
- Turkish: tazelik (tr)
- Ukrainian: сві́жість f (svížistʹ)
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