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Lividness

Definition: Lividness

Lividness

Noun

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

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "lividness" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1862. (references)


Synonyms: Lividness

Synonyms: achromasia (n), lividity (n), luridness (n), paleness (n), pallidness (n), pallor (n), wanness (n). (additional references)

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Derived & Related Names: Lividness

The following table summarizes names derived from the word "lividness".
 
NameGenderLanguageMeaning
LebaothN/ABiblical

Lividness

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

 

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Modern Translations: Lividness

Language Translations for "lividness"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

German

  

Fahlheit (lividity, paleness, pallor, sallowness, wanness). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

πελιδνότησ (pallor), πελιδνότητα (pallor). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ividnesslay

   

Romanian

  

lividitate (lividity). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

lividez. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

morluk (lividity, purpleness), grilik (grayness, greyness, lividity). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

sắc xám xịt sắc tái mét (lividity), sắc tím bầm (lividity), sắc tái nhợt (lividity). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Lividness

Derivations

Words beginning with "lividness": lividnesses. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Lividness" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: livornese, loveyness. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Lividness"

Words rhyming with "lividness" (pronounced 'Liv"id*ness'): Abjectedness, Abjectness, Ableness, Abominableness, Abortiveness, Abruptness, Absentness, Absoluteness, Absorptiveness, Abstemiousness, Abstersiveness, Abstractedness, Abstractiveness, Abstractness, Abstruseness, Absurdness, Abusiveness, Acceptableness, Accessariness, Accessoriness, Accidentalness, Accommodableness, Accommodateness, Accurateness, Accustomedness, Acidness, Acquaintedness, Acquisitiveness, Acrimoniousness, Activeness, Actualness, Acuteness, Adaptedness, Adaptiveness, Adaptness, Addictedness, Addle-patedness, Adeptness, Adequateness, Adhesiveness, Admirableness, Adorableness, Adroitness, Adultness, Advantageousness, Adventurousness, Adverseness, Advisable-ness, Advisedness, Affableness. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Lividness

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-e-i-i-l-n-s-s-v"

-2 letters: divines, insides, lindies, snivels.

-3 letters: devils, diesis, divine, indies, inside, levins, livens, niseis, seisin, sidles, sileni, slides, snivel.

-4 letters: deils, delis, devil, dines, dives, evils, idles, indie, isled, isles, issei, ivied, ivies, lends, lenis, levin, liens, lined, lines, lived, liven, lives, livid, nides, nisei, sends, sides, sidle, silds, sines, sleds, slide, sneds, snide.

 Words containing the letters "d-e-i-i-l-n-s-s-v"
 

+2 letters: lividnesses.

 

+3 letters: devilishness, dividendless, indivisibles, redissolving.

 

+5 letters: devilishnesses, devolutionists, individualises.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Lividness


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4C 69 76 69 64 6E 65 73 73

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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