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Mellowness

noun

Kindheartedness through maturity or old age.

A taste (especially of fruit) that is ripe and of full flavor.

The property of a sensation that is rich and pleasing. Synonyms: fullness, richness. "The cheap wine had no body, no mellowness" , "He was well aware of the richness of his own appearance"

A soft shade of a color.

Geniality, as through the effects of alcohol or marijuana.

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"Mellowness" Quotes from Famous Books

... contrasts of light and shade, and conveys little of the mellowness and richness of atmospheric effect which characterise the original. Unlike the brilliance of colouring in the Castelfranco picture, dark reds, browns, and greens here give a sombre tone which is accentuated by the dullness of surface due ...

— Giorgione • Herbert Cook

... Hildegarde refused stubbornly to believe even the true one. In vain General Moncrief pointed out to her the high mortality among men of fifty—or, at least, among men who looked fifty; in vain he told her of the instability of the wholesale hardware business. Hildegarde had chosen to marry for mellowness, and marry ...

— Tales of the Jazz Age • F. Scott Fitzgerald

... people it remains latent for a number of years, like an apple which remains green and hard for a time, but suddenly ripens into softness, so when love flashes into the human breast, the once hard heart is changed into mellowness. ...

— Short Story Writing - A Practical Treatise on the Art of The Short Story • Charles Raymond Barrett

... one who looks for the first time on some brilliant, early impressions of his famous plates. The ink is still alive; the Chinese or Japanese paper which Rembrandt generally used, has sometimes gone very yellow and spotted, but oftener it has the fine mellowness of age. We treat it with respect, almost with reverence, for we recall that these very sheets of paper were dampened and laid upon the etched plate, already prepared by the hands of the great etcher himself. Each impression ...

— Rembrandt and His Etchings • Louis Arthur Holman

... voluptuously rounds away their outlines; and one can well imagine that the master deemed it the culmination of his art when he painted with the same aureate effulgence, when he put on canvas those gorgeous tints and that exquisite mellowness. ...

— The Land of The Blessed Virgin; Sketches and Impressions in Andalusia • William Somerset Maugham

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