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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:

blondness; fairness; paleness

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)

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 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)