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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Extreme or unnatural paleness.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. Paleness; wanness.

Wiktionary

  1. n. Paleness; want of color; pallidity.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. Paleness; want of color; pallidity.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. unnatural lack of color in the skin (as from bruising or sickness or emotional distress)

Etymologies

  1. From Latin pallor ("paleness, pallor"), from palleō ("I am or look pale, blanch"). (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English pallour, from Old French palor, from Latin pallor, from pallēre, to be pale; see pel-1 in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “Even though Freeman's lovely caramel pallor is at odds with these facts, he nonetheless projects the necessary authority to play America’s most-celebrated military and civil leader.”

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  • “Do this by wasting money every two weeks on at least one expensive rouge lipstick that, once you have left the shop, turns out to be too berry, too Royal Mail-box red, too silt puddle brown or too zany raspberry for your skin pallor.”

    The Guardian: Slap shtick: How not to put on make-up

  • “He has a tendency to lose his temper and order God to curse people with his skin pallor.”

    McCain:

  • “At his watchful distance, her pallor was a beacon, a broadcast resonance.”

    Simon & Schuster: The Best American Erotica 2006

  • “I assumed her pallor was the result of being indoors all the time and that the blue vein that beat wildly at her temple was a kind of inner metronome.”

    Middlesex

  • “The pallor might be the result of emotion, or it might be natural.”

    Through the Wall

  • “It was anger that had seized Mrs. Strickland, and her pallor was the pallor of a cold and sudden rage.”

    Moon and Sixpence

  • “The pallor is the pallor of hardship, often of the lack of the right kind of nourishment, but the stillness is not the result of inward personal calm and peace.”

    A Circuit Rider's Wife

  • “We both, she and I, took after our mother, were broad shouldered, strongly built, and capable of endurance, but her pallor was a sign of ill-health; she often had a cough, and I sometimes caught in her face that look one sees in people who are seriously ill, but for some reason conceal the fact.”

    The Chorus Girl and Other Stories

  • “Her pallor was the pallor of death; the convulsions began once more.”

    A Love Episode

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synonyms (4)

Words with the same meaning

  1. paleness
  1. pallidity
  1. bloodlessness
  1. ghastliness

antonyms (1)

Words with the opposite meaning

  1. flush

hypernyms (3)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. skin colour
  1. complexion
  1. skin color

same context (21)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. paleness
  2. whiteness
  3. complexion
  4. hue
  1. stillness
  2. sheen
  3. radiance
  4. tinge
  1. faintness
  2. weariness
  3. tremor
  4. chill
  1. haze
  2. coldness
  3. softness
  4. languor
  1. glow
  2. apathy
  3. gleam
  4. cheek
  1. blush

reverse dictionary (18)

Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. pallescence
  2. pallescent
  3. pallidity
  1. unwholesome
  2. leucosis
  3. cadaverous
  1. shock
  2. green
  3. chill
  1. deadly
  2. dead
  3. unhealthy
  1. sickly
  2. pale
  3. pallidness
  1. wanness
  2. deathly
  3. whiteness

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  • ekbergmann Annie Clark (St. Vincent) uses pallor twice in "Jesus Saves, I Spend" from her album Marry Me.

    "While Jesus is saving, I'm spending all my days
    in the garden-grey pallor of lines across your face"
    and
    "While Jesus is saving I'm spending all my grace
    on rosy-red pallor of lights on center stage". Mar 31, 2010

  • hyperbole malaise and pallor Dec 12, 2009

  • bilby
    Like wine grown stale, the street-lamp’s pallor seeks
    The wilted anger of her scarlet lips,
    And bitter, evanescent finger-tips
    Of unsaid questions play upon her cheeks.
    She sways a little, and her tired breath,
    Fumbling at the crucifix of her mind,
    Draws out the aged nails, now dull and kind,
    That once were sharp loves hardening in their death.
    - Maxwell Bodenheim, 'Sonnet'. Sep 21, 2009

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