Pallor

Definition: Pallor

Pallor

Noun

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

Date "pallor" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)

Etymology: Pallor \Pal"lor\, noun. [Latin expression, from pallere to be or look pale. See Pale,]. (Websters 1913)

Domain	Definitions
Health	A clinical manifestation consisting of an unnatural paleness of the skin. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Pallor

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

Crosswords: Pallor

English words defined with "pallor": -or ♦ shock. (references)

Specialty definitions using "pallor": atrophy of the optic nerve ♦ chills ♦ hemotherapis ♦ optic atrophy ♦ PHERESIS SPECIALIST ♦ Respiratory Syncytial Virus, Human. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Pallor" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

Latin (fading, paleness, paleness of complexion, wanness).

Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	Her pallor had become whiteness, and her cheeks were glowing.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Other symptoms include pallor and exhaustion. (references)
		Symptoms of HUS include fever, lethargy, irritability, and pallor. (references)
		But the first signs of this disease may be vague, like fatigue, nausea, dyspnea (difficult breathing), or pallor. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Pallor" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Pallor" is used about 113 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	113	30,464

Expressions using "pallor": unearthly pallor ♦ waxen pallor. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Language		Translations for "pallor"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		zverdhje (paleness), zbehtësi (ash, dimness, paleness), zbehje (paleness). (various references)

Arabic		‏إمتقاع اللون, ‏شحوب الوجه, ‏شحوب (ash, paleness, pallidness, sallowness, sickliness, wanness, whiteness). (various references)

Bulgarian		бледнота. (various references)

Czech		pobledlost, sinalost, bledost (paleness, pallidness, whiteness). (various references)

Danish		pallor (paleness), bleghed (paleness, whiteness). (various references)

Dutch		pallor (paleness, whiteness), bleekheid (paleness, whiteness). (various references)

Farsi		کمرنگی , زردرنگی . (various references)

Finnish		kalpeus (paleness). (various references)

French		pâleur (paleness, pallidness, pastiness). (various references)

German		blässe (colorlessness, colourlessness, paleness, pallidness, sallowness, sickliness, wanness). (various references)

Greek		πελιδνότησ (lividness), πελιδνότητα (lividness), ωχρότησ (luridness, paleness, pallidness, sallowness, wanness), ωχρότητα (blindly, luridness, paleness, sallowness, shopping center, wanness, whiteness), ωχρότης (paleness), χλωμάδα (paleness, wanness), άχρωμο τρίχωμα ζώων (paleness, whiteness), λευκό τρίχωμα ζώων (paleness, whiteness). (various references)

Hebrew		ירקרקות (greenishness, paleness), חורון (paleness, whiteness), �"חור�" (paleness). (various references)

Hungarian		sápadtság (paleness, pallidness, wanness, whiteness). (various references)

Italian		pallore (paleness, sallowness, wanness, whiteness). (various references)

Manx		treihys (abjection, abjectness, desolation, desolation of persons, fragility, haggardness, misery, pathos, sallowness, wanness, wretchedness), banid (fairness). (various references)

Pig Latin		allorpay.(various references)

Portuguese		palidez (blankness, lightness, paleness, pallium, pastor, whiteness). (various references)

Romanian		paloare, lipsã de culoare, decolorare (discolorating, discoloring, discolouring, fading, paleness). (various references)

Russian		бледность (feebleness, paleness, whiteness). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		bledilo (greensickness, paleness, pallidness, sallow, whiteness). (various references)

Spanish		palidez (paleness, pallidity, pallidness, sickliness, wanness, whiteness). (various references)

Swedish		blekhet (pallidness, whiteness). (various references)

Turkish		solgunluk (paleness, pallidness, washiness). (various references)

Ukranian		блідість (paleness, washiness, whiteness). (various references)

Vietnamese		vẻ xanh xao, vẻ tái nhợt. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Old French	900-1400	palor. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "pallor": pallors. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Pallor" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: fallor, palar, paleor, Pallam, pallar, pallard, paller, pallia, Pallie, pallip, pallir, pallon, pallos, pallot, pallour, palolo, palon, Palop, palor, panloy, Paylor, Pilbora, pilloe, pillor, pollr. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "pallor" (pronounced 'Pal"lor'): Dolor, Parlor, squalor. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-l-l-o-p-r"
	-1 letter: loral, parol, polar.
	-2 letters: olla, opal, oral, pall, poll, prao, proa, roll.
	-3 letters: all, alp, lap, lar, lop, oar, ora, pal, par, pol, pro, rap.
	-4 letters: al, ar, la, lo, op, or, pa.
	Words containing the letters "a-l-l-o-p-r"
	+1 letter: pallors, payroll, pollard.
	+2 letters: appellor, galloper, payrolls, pollards, preallot, walloper.
	+3 letters: allograph, allomorph, allopatry, allotrope, allotropy, appellors, gallopers, palliator, parlously, patrolled, patroller, perorally, pollarded, popularly, preallots, prothalli, scalloper, wallopers.
	+4 letters: allographs, allomorphs, allopatric, allotropes, allotropic, corporally, deplorable, deplorably, multipolar, orphically, palliators, pastorally, patrollers, patrolling, pellagrous, personally, phylloxera, pollarding, pollinator, polyhedral, portabella, portabello, prelogical, prodigally, propellant, prothallia, prothallus, proximally, pyrogallol, scallopers, superalloy, temporally, tropically.
	+5 letters: acropetally, ailurophile, allelomorph, allographic, allomorphic, allopatries, allopurinol, allotropies, boilerplate, chloroplast, corporeally, haloperidol, leptospiral, nonparallel, nulliparous, parochially, patelliform, petrodollar, phylloxerae, phylloxeras, pictorially, placeholder, polarizable, pollinators, polycrystal, polynuclear, portabellas, portabellos, preallotted, precolonial, propellants, propranolol, prosaically, prothallium, pyrogallols, pyrolyzable, rapscallion, realpolitik, superalloys, trophically.
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