Unnatural lack of color in the skin (as from bruising or sickness or emotional distress)

Usage examples of paleness.

When he opened his eyes he saw Chara swimming towards him, the paleness of fright dulling the bronze of her sunburn.

With those whose systems are enfeebled by want, intemperance, exposures or disease, as scrofula or syphilis, the first symptoms usually observed will be a frequent desire to urinate, occasional attacks of diarrhea, flatulency, dropsical swelling of the face, especially under the eyes, and afterwards of the extremities, paleness and increasing debility.

During the inflammatory process there may be more or less febrile movement, paleness of the surface, languor, impaired appetite, night sweats, and general feebleness of the system.

His face, neck, and forearms had paled over the winter, but were still darker than the flesh of back and shouldersand a faint line still lingered round his waist, demarcating the soft buckskin color of his torso from the startling paleness of his backside.

The foremost of the two was Sir Giles Mompesson, and his usually stern and sinister features had acquired a yet more inauspicious cast, from the deathlike paleness that bespread them, as well as from the fillet bound round his injured brow.

The Bravo listened in silence, though his companion, who, at another moment, and under other emotions, would have avoided him as one shrinks from contagion, saw, on looking mournfully up into his face, that the muscles were slightly agitated, and that a paleness crossed his cheeks, which the light of the moon rendered ghastly.

The Bravo appeared, but with a paleness deeper than common on his cheek.

Fury turned to ghastly paleness as Merilille removed her mask, and Adeleas and the others did the same.

Spanish South American Countess was of a camelia paleness, and had almond-shaped dark eyes with brooding lashes under slender brows that met.

When he saw her face again, he was amazed at the sudden green paleness of her irises, as if something had drained away.

THE SYMPTOMS of rickets are severe pains in the bones, especially during the night, febrile excitement and profuse perspiration, paleness of the face, a sallow and wrinkled appearance of the skin, and derangement of the digestive organs.

The indents laughed nervously, comparing the paleness of wrists, waiting for someone to tell them what to do.

They cut runnels in his carefully-applied paint, and dripped paleness onto his shirt.

Angelique leaned against the doorframe, looking proud and noble despite the paleness of her skin and the blood that still seeped from her wound.

The livid paleness of her complexion, the rigid fold of her lips, the nervous shudders that shook her frame, revealed a whole existence of bitter deceptions, of exhausting struggles, and of proudly concealed humiliations.