the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
n. The quality or state of being pallid; paleness; pallor; wanness.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. Pallidity; paleness; wanness.
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n. unnatural lack of color in the skin (as from bruising or sickness or emotional distress)
Word Usage
"While this pallidness was burning aloft, few words were heard from the enchanted crew; who in one thick cluster stood on the forecastle, all their eyes gleaming in that pale phosphorescence, like a faraway constellation of stars."