Ruddiness
['rʌdinis]
Definition
(n.) The quality or state of being ruddy; as, the ruddiness of the cheeks or the sky.
Checker: Reginald
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Reddishness, blowziness, floridness.
Editor: Mamie
Examples
- It had a pale ruddy sea-bottom, with black crabs and sea-weed moving sinuously under a transparent sea, that passed into flamy ruddiness above. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- She was in person full-limbed and somewhat heavy; without ruddiness, as without pallor; and soft to the touch as a cloud. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Dusk was beginning to reign; her parlour fire already glowed with twilight ruddiness; but I thought she wished the room dimmer, the hour later. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
Editor: Rochelle