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Meaning of "brownness" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF BROWNNESS

brownness  [ˈbraʊnnəs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF BROWNNESS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Brownness is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES BROWNNESS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

brownness

Brown

Brown is the color of dark wood or rich soil. It is a composite color made by combining red, black and yellow. The color is seen widely in nature, in wood, soil, and human hair color, eye color and skin pigmentation. In Europe and the United States, it is the color most often associated with plainness, humility, the rustic, and poverty. It is also, according to public opinion surveys, the least favorite color of the public.

Definition of brownness in the English dictionary

The definition of brownness in the dictionary is the quality of degree of being brown.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH BROWNNESS


aloneness
əˈləʊnnəs
betweenness
bɪˈtwiːnnəs
brazenness
ˈbreɪzənnəs
brokenness
ˈbrəʊkənnəs
clandestineness
klænˈdɛstɪnnəs
doneness
ˈdʌnnəs
feminineness
ˈfɛmɪnɪnnəs
foreignness
ˈfɒrɪnnəs
hiddenness
ˈhɪdənnəs
humanness
ˈhjuːmənnəs
inaneness
ɪˈneɪnnəs
ingrownness
ɪnˈɡrəʊnnəs
loneness
ˈləʊnnəs
oftenness
ˈɒftənnəs
saneness
ˈseɪnnəs
sanguineness
ˈsæŋɡwɪnnəs
soddenness
ˈsɒdənnəs
uncleanness
ʌnˈkliːnnəs
unknownness
ʌnˈnəʊnnəs
upside-downness
ˌʌpsaɪdˈdaʊnnəs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE BROWNNESS

browned-off
brownfield
brownfield site
Brownian motion
Brownian movement
brownie
Brownie Guide
Brownie Guider
Brownie point
Brownies
browning
Browning automatic rifle
Browning machine gun
brownish
Brownism
Brownist
brownnoser
brownout
brownstone
browny

WORDS THAT END LIKE BROWNNESS

business
cleanness
commonness
drunkenness
evenness
greenness
Guinness
keenness
leanness
McGuinness
meanness
openness
outspokenness
plainness
rottenness
sternness
stubbornness
suddenness
thinness
unevenness
wantonness

Synonyms and antonyms of brownness in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «brownness» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF BROWNNESS

Find out the translation of brownness to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of brownness from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «brownness» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

褐变
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

brownness
570 millions of speakers

English

brownness
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

brownness
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

سمرة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

brownness
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

brownness
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

brownness
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

brownness
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Brownness
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Bräune
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

brownness
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

brownness
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Brownness
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

brownness
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

brownness
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

तपकिरी
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

kahverengilik
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

brownness
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

brownness
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

brownness
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

brownness
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

brownness
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

brownness
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

brunhet
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

brownness
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of brownness

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «BROWNNESS»

The term «brownness» is normally little used and occupies the 112.891 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «BROWNNESS» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «brownness» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «brownness» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about brownness

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BROWNNESS»

Discover the use of brownness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to brownness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Racetalk: Racism Hiding in Plain Sight
6. THE. STRUCTURE. OF. SIGNIFICATION. Brownness. This is her home this thin edge of barbwire. —Gloria Anzaldua (1999, 35) As implied in Anzalduas poetry above, brown people must walk a thin, contentious, painful racial line.
Kristen A. Myers, 2005
2
Latining America: Black-Brown Passages and the Coloring of ...
But Latino and Latina dark brownness is not fully covered up. And we cannot abandon it either, for what remains is the task of unraveling the implica— tions of “that” black infiltration. The wide reach of brownness demonstrates that the contrast ...
Claudia Milian, 2013
3
A Companion to Latina/o Studies
Feeling is meant to index a communal investment in Brownness. Brownness is a value through negation, the negation projected onto it by a racist public sphere that devalues the particularity of non-Anglo Americans. This negation underwrites  ...
Juan Flores, Renato Rosaldo, 2009
4
The Routledge Queer Studies Reader
The notion of brownness has been rendered differently by essayist Richard Rodriguez, who is also interested in describing brownness in relation to a certain antinormativity. In his most recent (2003) book, the Mexican American memoirist  ...
Donald E. Hall, Annamarie Jagose, 2012
5
A Probable State: The Novel, the Contract, and the Jews
In its excessiveness to the fictional narrative presented, brownness as race offers both character and readers a way of experiencing their respective relations to the text as not wholly generated from within the authority of the fictional frame.
Irene Tucker, 2000
6
The Routledge Companion to Metaphysics
However,a realist about tropes maysay that she sees first the brownness of the donkey, and then second the brownness of the doormat. Thebrownness ofthe doormat maystill “exactly match” the brownnessof thedonkey, butonthis rival ...
Robin Le Poidevin, Simons Peter, McGonigal Andrew, 2009
7
Psychological Review
CONCERNING THE SENSATION QUALITY1 A BEHAVIORISTIC ACCOUNT BY EDWARD CHACE TOLMAN University of California Suppose a number of people look at a patch of color — a bit of brownness on the wall. The consciousness of ...
James Mark Baldwin, James McKeen Cattell, Howard Crosby Warren, 1922
8
G E Moore
To a rejoineder of these assertions, Broad says: "I do not believe for a moment that a penny is a whole of which brownness and roundness are parts, nor do I believe that the brownness or roundness of a penny could exist in time all by itself.
Abdul Hamid, 1989
9
Hauntings by the Latin Lover: The Ambiguities of Eroticized ...
acknowledges that "brownness is not white, and it is not black either, yet it does not simply sit midway between them," the conflation of 'brown' with 'Latino/a' tends to reinscribe the exclusion of other Latinos/as (especially, although not ...
Santiago Castellanos, 2008
10
The Trouble with Sauling Around: Conversion in Ethnic ...
because they chart not only Rodriguez's assimilation or conversion to American- ness through language and education, but also his fascination with the United States as a nation always undergoing conversion to brownness. Raymund A.
Madeline Ruth Walker, 2011

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BROWNNESS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term brownness is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Get a Perfectly Ripe Avocado Every Time With This Simple Hack
... just-right firmness, or waiting patiently for them to ripen at home, only to find that too much time has passed and brownness has taken hold. «Yahoo Food, Jun 15»
2
The Trails Eatery helps in-laws get over Coco's closure
#He got the kids' French toast, which came with a huge slab of thick bread cooked to the right level of golden brownness, served with bacon ... «San Diego Reader, Jun 15»
3
On Father's Day, Thinking of the Dad Who Raised Me -- and the …
I also became aware that my biological mother was white, which meant my brownness came from my biological father. This fact made the ... «Huffington Post, Jun 15»
4
Davidson alumni collection is vibrant, enriching
... their own skin tone while simultaneously being confronted with racial identity and varying degrees of “brownness,” illustrated by, among other ... «Charlotte Observer, Jun 15»
5
Travel: A nostalgic golfing break in the Cairngorms
SINCE the early 1970s, even before its golden brownness became so automatically associated with the water-of-life, the Spey has been a ... «Herald Scotland, Jun 15»
6
Commentary: Rachel Dolezal's Transracial America
Maybe folks were too shy to question the brownness of her skin or the perfect spirals of her hair. Maybe it's because Spokane County's Black ... «BET, Jun 15»
7
Elysia Crampton Announces Her Debut Album With A Track From …
As for the four-track album American Drift as a whole, Crampton explains that its core is "Virginian American history, [and] exploring brownness ... «The FADER, Jun 15»
8
Being Tamil Isn't Just About Speaking the Language
The inability to speak Tamil or the appearance of brownness shouldn't deny them of either privilege. Someone recently commented, "A Tamil ... «Huffington Post Canada, Jun 15»
9
Life in a metro
Rani's brownness was a deep dirty one smearing her bony 12-year-old face pressing grotesquely against the glass while the hungry eyes ... «The Hindu, Jun 15»
10
Fiction Friday: Read Lauri Kubuitsile's “Missing Bits”, from The Short …
She wasn't sure, but she suspected there was permanence about his brownness unlike hers made casually on a whim with only one ... «Books LIVE, Jun 15»

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