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lividness

  • a variation of lividity.
    lividity
    noun
    a discolored, bluish appearance caused by a bruise, pooling of blood due to congestion of blood vessels, strangulation, etc..
  • a word derived from livid.
    livid
    adjective
    having a discolored, bluish appearance caused by a bruise, congestion of blood vessels, strangulation, etc., as the face, flesh, hands, or nails.

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The glare behind him emphasized the lividness of his pallid skin.

From The League of the Leopard by Harold Bindloss

A rapid flowed into the head of it, and the lines of froth shone with a strange lividness.

From The Mistress of Bonaventure by Harold Bindloss

Pale and livid combs are as certain a sign of bad health in fowls, as the paleness or lividness of the lips is in human beings.

From Poultry A Practical Guide to the Choice, Breeding, Rearing, and Management of all Descriptions of Fowls, Turkeys, Guinea-fowls, Ducks, and Geese, for Profit and Exhibition. by Hugh Piper

It dropped from her powerless fingers as she finished; and she sank back in her chair with such a ghastly paleness, that it seemed absolutely like the lividness of death.

From The Midnight Queen by May Agnes Fleming

The lividness had almost gone off it, remaining only here and there on the temples, on the nose, and between the eyes, in party-coloured, uneven, serpentine spots.

From Yama: the pit by Bernard Guilbert Guerney