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Pallidness

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pal·lid  (pld)
adj.
1. Having an abnormally pale or wan complexion: the pallid face of the invalid.
2. Lacking intensity of color or luminousness.
3. Lacking in radiance or vitality; dull: pallid prose.
[Latin pallidus, from pallre, to be pale; see pel-1 in Indo-European roots.]
pallid·ly adv.
pallid·ness n.
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Noun1.Pallidnesspallidness - unnatural lack of color in the skin (as from bruising or sickness or emotional distress)
achromasia, lividness, paleness, pallor, wanness, luridness, lividity
complexion, skin color, skin colour - the coloring of a person's face


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While this pallidness was burning aloft, few words were heard from the enchanted crew; who in one thick cluster stood on the forecastle, all their eyes gleaming in that pale phosphorescence, like a far away constellation of stars.
Moby Dick LXVIII-CXXXIV by Melville, Herman View in context
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