paleness

Other forms of paleness

plural

palenesses·

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 paleness

What does paleness mean?

paleness means "unnatural lack of color in the skin (as from bruising or sickness or emotional distress)". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in paleness?

paleness has 3 syllables: pa-le-ness. The stress falls on "pa".

What is another word for paleness?

Close synonyms include lividness, lividity, luridness, 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 paleness a common word?

paleness is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.