Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The quality of being sallow; paleness, tinged with brownish yellow: as, sallowness of complexion.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The quality or condition of being sallow.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The property of being sallow, yellowishness.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a sickly yellowish skin color

Etymologies

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sallow +‎ -ness

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Examples

  • Yet this doesn't necessarily have to mean that we're all doomed to sags and sallowness.

    Lesley M. M. Blume: 10 Time-Hallowed, Recession-Proof Tips For Beautification 2010

  • Resigned to another day of sallowness, he picked up the black.

    THE RIVER KINGS’ ROAD Liane Merciel 2010

  • Yet this doesn't necessarily have to mean that we're all doomed to sags and sallowness.

    Lesley M. M. Blume: 10 Time-Hallowed, Recession-Proof Tips For Beautification 2010

  • It was rather thin, his cheeks were hollow, and there was an unhealthy sallowness in their colour.

    The Brothers Karamazov 2003

  • But the artist understood that the difficulty was with respect to the sallowness, and so he reassured them by saying that he only wished to give more brilliancy and expression to the eyes.

    The Mysterious Portrait 2003

  • For her dark sallowness, for her wilful mastery, he had only had a passing fancy.

    Maurice Guest 2003

  • Quixote of La Mancha was that a man of that sort and shape he had never yet seen; he marvelled at the length of his hair, his lofty stature, the lankness and sallowness of his countenance, his armour, his bearing and his gravity — a figure and picture such as had not been seen in those regions for many a long day.

    Don Quixote 2002

  • The makeup couldn't hide the sallowness of that woman's cheeks, the hollow-ness of her eyes, or the way her neck had started to go all crepey (seeing that sort of lizardy skin on a woman's neck always made Coral shiver inside).

    Wizard and Glass King, Stephen 1997

  • Pugio was hard, almost stringy, and there was an ashy sallowness about his skin.

    The Dark Queen Williams, Michael, 1952 Dec. 17- 1994

  • Today rain had streaked the powder and blurred the rouge, revealing darkened lower lids, blotchy sallowness, deepened lines, and his shoulders were slumped.

    The Boat of a Million Years Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1989

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