What's the difference between greenery and greenness?

Greenery


Definition:

  • (n.) Green plants; verdure.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The only greenery more impressive than the massive trees are the prodigious mosses and lichens hanging from every branch.
  • (2) Increased greenery protected only at lower levels of pollution.
  • (3) Cameron worked hard to land some wind turbine factories, and was put out when the chancellor went public, bang in the middle of some delicate wooing of foreign investors, with his heavily spun doubts about greenery.
  • (4) The Tokyo Bay area is a favourite among locals, but for a more secluded ride, complete with clearly marked cycling lanes, Yoyogi Park, a vast expanse of greenery near the trendy Harajuku neighbourhood, is hard to beat.
  • (5) That’s an important distinction to make, because there’s a lot of discussion of the benefits of physical activity, but even exposure to greenery is very good for mental health.” London, by some estimates , comprises 47% green space.
  • (6) ( spitnswordus ) Pace of life, sense of claustrophobia (lack of space), lack of greenery, crowds, pollution, constant consumer lifestyle, being constantly under the scrutiny of strangers, the weariness of dealing with many strangers; as soon as I escape to the countryside I feel much lighter and happier.
  • (7) There’s little greenery so, having moved there recently, I’m hoping the sea takes some of the stress out of living there.
  • (8) Waterfalls, lush greenery and grazing cows, in the midst of miles of golden dunes, made the scene appear unreal, like a film set – especially when our camel entered stage left.
  • (9) Instead of the Champs Élysées, the Parc Monceau, or the local greenery of the dusty square with a defunct fountain and a statue of some obscure 18th-century explorer.
  • (10) Not much greenery, but ends with warning against “trashing our planet”.
  • (11) But many city dwellers across the world will make a case for why their own urban environment causes so much stress – from transport nightmares and lack of greenery to high costs and social anonymity.
  • (12) Someone that knows their architectural history, looking at their image of a steel and glass grid filled with greenery, might recognise it as a parody of a much older design – Le Corbusier's Immeubles Villas project of the mid-1920s, where each balcony on a concrete grid is filled with a miniature garden.
  • (13) Now, after a period in which real cities with all their asphalt, brick and concrete were reclaimed, the city-overtaken-by-greenery has returned, this time with a post-industrial spin.
  • (14) Exposure to greenery is positive for mental health, as well as being active in it,” says Miles.
  • (15) Like many people, Thomsen did not realise how much of the greenery on the countryside was ash until it began to die in Denmark.
  • (16) • Simple arrangements of white lilies and greenery will be at the foot of the lectern and candlestick.
  • (17) Once a neglected and decrepit spot of greenery in a city centre starved of parks, it has suddenly been transformed into the most vibrant political theatre.
  • (18) When it comes to placebo greenery, this is more convincing than the Walkie Talkie’s “Sky Garden” or the urban parsley of the Garden bridge .
  • (19) Summer is for those who like salads, greenery, sleeping naked under a sheet instead of cocooned in flannelette and thermals, sleeveless dresses, pedicures and strappy sandals, iced tea and Pimms, laughing gaily in the sunshine instead of nodding sombrely indoors as another Norwegian killer is unmasked, or baking themselves on a beach as the sun beats down.
  • (20) In Holland many motorways are lined by barriers to reduce noise and by greenery to absorb the fumes.

Greenness


Definition:

  • (n.) The quality of being green; viridity; verdancy; as, the greenness of grass, or of a meadow.
  • (n.) Freshness; vigor; newness.
  • (n.) Immaturity; unripeness; as, the greenness of fruit; inexperience; as, the greenness of youth.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Vertical gratings are tinged with green and horizontal gratings with pink.
  • (2) A spokesman for the Greens said that the party was “disappointed” with the decision and would be making representations to both the BBC and BBC Trust .
  • (3) Seven males have been observed carrying both inherited tritan and red-green defects.
  • (4) It contains 10,000 apartments so far, in blocks that might appear Soviet but for shades of blue, green and yellow.
  • (5) The birds were maintained at a constant temperature in, dim green light.
  • (6) Since 1887, winter green is claimed to have caused dermatitis and to have been responsible for "idiosyncrasy".
  • (7) Cameron famously broke with the past, and highlighted his green credentials, by posing with huskies on a visit to Svalbard in the Norwegian Arctic in 2006.
  • (8) The deep green people who have an issue with the language of natural capital are actually making the same jump from value to commodification that they state that they don’t want ... They’ve equated one with the other,” he says.
  • (9) James Cameron, vice-chairman of Climate Change Capital , an environmental investment group, and a member of the prime minister's Business Advisory Group , says: "I think the UK has, in essence, become a better place for green investors.
  • (10) Calves were tagged in the right ear with the green certified preconditioned for health (CPH) tag of the American Association of Bovine Practitioners.
  • (11) Ukip and the Greens are beneficiaries of this new political reality – as, arguably, is the SNP as it prepares to invade Labour’s heartland in Scotland next May.
  • (12) "She was a beautiful woman, she had beautiful, deep green eyes.
  • (13) In Humbo in Ethiopia , FMNR has re-greened 2,800 hectares: springs, dry for 30 years, are flowing again.
  • (14) Subjects with high ocular-dominance scores (right- or left-dominant subjects) showed for the green stimulus asymmetric behavior, while subjects with low ocular-dominance scores showed a tendency toward symmetry in perception.
  • (15) "We have concerns that a potential buyer looking at a property may not value the improvements carried out under Green Deal and may not want to pay for them," a mortgage industry source told the Observer .
  • (16) The move was confirmed by a Lib Dem aide, who said Tory claims to be green were "already a lame duck and are now dead in the water".
  • (17) One is the right not to be impeded when they are going to the House of Commons to vote, which may partly explain why the police decided to arrest Green and raid his offices last week on Thursday, when the Commons was not sitting.
  • (18) The green fund contributions already announced (which include a $3bn pledge by the US and a $1.5bn pledge by Japan revealed during the G20 summit) “show very clearly that if we want the emerging countries and the more fragile countries to participate in this global growth, we have to ... support them,” Hollande said.
  • (19) The supporters – many of them wearing Hamas green headbands and carrying Hamas flags – packed the open-air venue in rain and strong winds to celebrate the Islamist organisation's 25th anniversary and what it regards as a victory in last month's eight-day war with Israel.
  • (20) But in the rush to design it, Girardet wonders if the finer details of waste disposal and green power were lost.

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