sallowness

noun

Definition of sallownessnext
as in greenness

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  1. greenness
  2. pallor
  3. paleness
  4. whiteness
Noun
  • Stoughton’s website, meanwhile, does more than advertise the company’s current greenness.
    — Kyle Devine, Longreads, 14 July 2026
  • One by one the great trees are killed, the suburban greenness collapsing.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 12 May 2026
Definition of greenness
Noun
  • Healthcare providers sometimes gently pull down the lower eyelid to look for conjunctival pallor, which means the tissue appears unusually pale.
    — Julie Scott, Verywell Health, 4 July 2026
  • The pallor of mortality is a reminder, for some, of the heat wave in the summer of 2003, when nearly fifteen thousand people perished in France.
    — Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 27 June 2026
Definition of pallor
Noun
  • Some of the symptoms of iron-deficiency anemia include fatigue, weakness and paleness.
    — BestReviews, Mercury News, 4 Feb. 2026
  • Other symptoms include fatigue, dizziness, paleness, and a rapid heart rate.
    — Peter Pressman, Verywell Health, 9 Dec. 2025
Definition of paleness
Noun
  • His skin, darkly suntanned after just one day swimming in the sea with his fellow factory workers the other Sunday, accentuated the whiteness of his open-collared shirt.
    — Cynthia Zarin, Harpers Magazine, 4 Aug. 2026
  • Garvey said the journal, which published quarterly from 1993 to 2005, was premised on the idea of abolishing whiteness as a social category that situates white people above other racial groups.
    — Harmeet Kaur, CNN Money, 30 July 2026
Definition of whiteness
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