pallor \pal"lor\, n. [L., fr. pallere to be or look pale. See
Pale, a.]
Paleness; want of color; pallidity; as, pallor of the
complexion. --Jer. Taylor.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
pallor
n : unnatural lack of color in the skin (as from bruising or
sickness or emotional distress) [syn: lividness, lividity,
luridness, paleness, pallidness, wanness, achromasia]
WordNet (r) 2.0
112 Moby Thesaurus words for "pallor":
Hippocratic face, achromatism, anemia, aridity, ashiness,
barrenness, bloodlessness, cadaverousness, cast, characterlessness,
chloranemia, chromatism, chromism, color, color balance,
color harmony, color scheme, coloration, coloring, colorlessness,
complexion, corpselikeness, deadliness, deadness, deathlikeness,
deathliness, deathly hue, deathly pallor, decorator color, dimness,
dismalness, dragginess, dreariness, dryness, dullness, dustiness,
eeriness, effeteness, emptiness, etiolation, exsanguination,
facies Hippocratica, fadedness, faintness, fairness, flatness,
ghastliness, ghostlikeness, ghostliness, grisliness, gruesomeness,
haggardness, heaviness, hollowness, hue, hypochromia,
hypochromic anemia, inanity, inexcitability, insipidity,
insipidness, jejunity, key, leadenness, lifelessness, lightness,
lividness, lowness of spirit, luridness, macabreness,
mask of death, muddiness, natural color, paleness, pallidity,
pallidness, pastiness, pointlessness, pokiness, ponderousness,
prison pallor, sallowness, shade, sickliness, sickly hue,
skin color, slowness, solemnity, spiritlessness, sterility,
stiffness, stodginess, stuffiness, superficiality, tastelessness,
tediousness, tinct, tincture, tinge, tint, tone, uncanniness,
undercolor, unearthliness, uninterestingness, unliveliness,
vapidity, vapidness, wanness, weakness, weirdness, woodenness
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
achromasia, lividity, lividness, luridness, paleness, pallidness, wanness
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