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Noun: paleness  peylnus
  1. Unnatural lack of colour in the skin (as from bruising or sickness or emotional distress)
    - lividness, lividity, luridness, pallidness, pallor, wanness, achromasia
     
  2. The property of having a naturally light complexion
    - blondness, fairness
     
  3. Being deficient in colour
    - pallidity

Derived forms: palenesses

See also: pale

Type of: color property [US], colour property [Brit, Cdn], complexion, skin color [US], skin colour [Brit, Cdn]

Encyclopedia: Paleness