pallor

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Estimated CEFR level: C1 — Advanced

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Definition

  1. noun unnatural lack of color in the skin (as from bruising or sickness or emotional distress)

Etymology

From Middle English pallour, from Old French palor (“paleness, pallor”), from Latin pallor, from palleō (“to look pale, blanch”).

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Synonyms

lividness, lividity, luridness, paleness, pallidness, wanness, achromasia

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