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UK
/pˈeɪlnəs/
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NOUN
- the property of having a naturally light complexion
- being deficient in color
- unnatural lack of color in the skin (as from bruising or sickness or emotional distress)
How To Use paleness In A Sentence
- Symptoms include tiredness, paleness, and lethargy.
- She is strong and beautiful, but her eroticism is restrained, her nipples toned down, their paleness an attenuated sign of disease.
- He drew back a little, as he spoke; it might be simple disgust; it might be fear; it might be what we call antipathy, which is different from either, and which will sometimes show itself in paleness, and even faintness, produced by objects perfectly harmless and not in themselves offensive to any sense. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 34, August, 1860
- a thin face with a waxy paleness
- Then there was a paleness of white trunks and bare delicate branches as they passed through aspens along a slope.
- I imagined the paleness of a gartered thigh against velvet upholstery, a breast exposed over by the wooden bar, an arm seductively draped over the back of a leather recliner. Miracles, Inc.
- Her paleness took from her beauty.
- Its paleness escapes looking bland thanks to contrasting inlays of ebony, walnut and amboyna, a wood distinguished by bird's eye curls.
- They were alert, well-muscled; their faces were streaked with paleness and a black smutch like dancers made up for a masquerade. Tramping on Life
- Anyway, my attention had been drawn to the paleness of our normally lush green carpet the other day and I realized, the fading was actually a layer of white cat hair and possibly dust.
