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Mellowness

noun
1.
Kindheartedness through maturity or old age.
2.
A taste (especially of fruit) that is ripe and of full flavor.
3.
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"
4.
A soft shade of a color.
5.
Geniality, as through the effects of alcohol or marijuana.





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"Mellowness" Quotes from Famous Books



... gate shut and consequently took his wheel, my poor Lirriper and the gig smashed to atoms and never spoke afterwards. He was a handsome figure of a man, and a man with a jovial heart and a sweet temper; but if they had come up then they never could have given you the mellowness of his voice, and indeed I consider photographs wanting in mellowness as a general rule and making you ...
— Mrs. Lirriper's Lodgings • Charles Dickens
... only one man, but what would become of all the Monsignori?" asked a voice different to the rest in mellowness and deep quality, but with a touch of insolent mockery in ...
— The Master-Christian • Marie Corelli
... moment, Mrs. Wilpham—the President—loomed up to us, bringing Braxton. He bore himself well. Rough dignity with a touch of mellowness. I daresay you never saw him smile. He smiled gravely down at the Duchess, while she talked in her pretty little quick humble way. He made ...
— Seven Men • Max Beerbohm
... generous nature made thrice generous by the mellowness of years, speaking of the man he hugely liked, tempered the truth to a more than paternal mildness. But it is the truth. Matthew Arnold, to put it bluntly, was wrong-headed in his judgment of America and Americans ...
— The Twentieth Century American - Being a Comparative Study of the Peoples of the Two Great - Anglo-Saxon Nations • H. Perry Robinson
... we agree with most connoisseurs that they should have just a suspicion of "haut gout"—a condition of advanced mellowness after the ...
— Cooking and Dining in Imperial Rome • Apicius


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