Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The character or condition of being pale; wanness; defect of color; want of freshness or ruddiness; whiteness of look.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality or condition of being pale; want of freshness or ruddiness; a sickly whiteness; lack of color or luster; wanness.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The condition or degree of being
pale or of lackingcolor .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the property of having a naturally light complexion
- noun being deficient in color
- noun unnatural lack of color in the skin (as from bruising or sickness or emotional distress)
Etymologies
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Examples
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Mr. Geach has seen Malays when terrified turn pale and shake; and Mr. Brough Smyth states that a native Australian "being on one occasion much frightened, showed a complexion as nearly approaching to what we call paleness, as can well be conceived in the case of a very black man."
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Beyond a sign of wealth, paleness is held in high regard within circles of the hipsterdom's intellectual elite.
Verena von Pfetten: Tan Is The New Tacky Verena von Pfetten 2010
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Mr. Koonin said he was unlikely to alter the schedule much when Mr. O'Brien arrived, even on Wednesday night; Mr. O'Brien - who often mocks his own "paleness" - is not known for attracting black viewers.
NYT > Home Page By BILL CARTER 2010
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Mr. Koonin said he was unlikely to alter the schedule much when Mr. O'Brien arrived, even on Wednesday night; Mr. O'Brien - who often mocks his own "paleness" - is not known for attracting black viewers.
NYT > Home Page By BILL CARTER 2010
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Mr. Koonin said he was unlikely to alter the schedule much when Mr. O'Brien arrived, even on Wednesday night; Mr. O'Brien - who often mocks his own "paleness" - is not known for attracting black viewers.
NYT > Home Page By BILL CARTER 2010
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Mr. Koonin said he was unlikely to alter the schedule much when Mr. O'Brien arrived, even on Wednesday night; Mr. O'Brien - who often mocks his own "paleness" - is not known for attracting black viewers.
NYT > Home Page By BILL CARTER 2010
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Mr. Koonin said he was unlikely to alter the schedule much when Mr. O'Brien arrived, even on Wednesday night; Mr. O'Brien - who often mocks his own "paleness" - is not known for attracting black viewers.
NYT > Home Page By BILL CARTER 2010
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Mr. Koonin said he was unlikely to alter the schedule much when Mr. O'Brien arrived, even on Wednesday night; Mr. O'Brien - who often mocks his own "paleness" - is not known for attracting black viewers.
NYT > Home Page By BILL CARTER 2010
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Sicily more terrible, or did the sword that hung from the gilded cornice strike more dread into the princely neck beneath it, than the voice which whispers to the heart, 'We are going, going down a precipice,' and the ghastly inward paleness, which is a mystery, even to the wife of our heart?
Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal Harold Edgeworth Butler 1914
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Next to this charming tenuity, perhaps her paleness was her most noticeable trait.
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