lividness

Other forms of lividness

plural

lividnesses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about lividness

What does lividness mean?

lividness means "unnatural lack of color in the skin (as from bruising or sickness or emotional distress)".

How many syllables are in lividness?

lividness has 3 syllables and divides as li-vid-ness under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for lividness?

Close synonyms include lividity, luridness, paleness, pallidness, pallor. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is lividness a common word?

lividness is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.