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PALENESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Being deficient in color
Synonyms:
paleness; pallidity
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("paleness" is a kind of...):
color property (an attribute of color)
Derivation:
pale (very light colored; highly diluted with white)
pale ((of light) lacking in intensity or brightness; dim or feeble)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The property of having a naturally light complexion
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("paleness" is a kind of...):
complexion; skin color; skin colour (the coloring of a person's face)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Unnatural lack of color in the skin (as from bruising or sickness or emotional distress)
Synonyms:
achromasia; lividity; lividness; luridness; paleness; pallidness; pallor; wanness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("paleness" is a kind of...):
complexion; skin color; skin colour (the coloring of a person's face)
Derivation:
pale (abnormally deficient in color as suggesting physical or emotional distress)
Context examples:
There she sat, staid and taciturn-looking, as usual, in her brown stuff gown, her check apron, white handkerchief, and cap. She was intent on her work, in which her whole thoughts seemed absorbed: on her hard forehead, and in her commonplace features, was nothing either of the paleness or desperation one would have expected to see marking the countenance of a woman who had attempted murder, and whose intended victim had followed her last night to her lair, and (as I believed), charged her with the crime she wished to perpetrate.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
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