PALLOR Synonyms: 21 Similar and Opposite Words

pallor

noun

Definition of pallor

as in paleness

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Recent Examples of pallor In the heyday of her career, her choppy hair, flat chest, sickly pallor and large darting eyes were a manic pixie dream. — Carly Tagen-Dye, PEOPLE, 3 June 2026 Already, his story had begun to take on the grim pallor of tragedy. — Jack Lang, New York Times, 28 May 2026 Addae is developing zinc oxide sunscreens that don’t leave as much of a white pallor by changing the shape of the chemical’s particle structure, an advancement which may be particularly beneficial for people with darker skin tones. — Jackie Flynn Mogensen, Scientific American, 25 May 2026 Die große Nacht im Eimer (The Big Night Down the Drain), made that year, depicts a figure of indiscernible age with a cadaverous pallor and yellow splotches, brandishing an oversized phallus beneath a soot-black veil. — Tessa Solomon, ARTnews.com, 30 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for pallor

Recent Examples of Synonyms for 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

Much like whiteness itself, America can only admire its virtues by strategically omitting most of its own history.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 26 Aug. 2026
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