LIVIDNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does lividness mean? 

• LIVIDNESS (noun)
  The noun LIVIDNESS has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: LIVIDNESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LIVIDNESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

achromasia; lividity; lividness; luridness; paleness; pallidness; pallor; wanness

Hypernyms ("lividness" is a kind of...):

complexion; skin color; skin colour (the coloring of a person's face)

Derivation:

livid (anemic looking from illness or emotion)

livid (discolored by coagulation of blood beneath the skin)