SALLOWNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sallowness mean? 

• SALLOWNESS (noun)
  The noun SALLOWNESS has 1 sense:

1. a sickly yellowish skin color

  Familiarity information: SALLOWNESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SALLOWNESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A sickly yellowish skin color

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("sallowness" is a kind of...):

complexion; skin color; skin colour (the coloring of a person's face)

Derivation:

sallow (unhealthy looking)

 Context examples 

Mr. Miles, the master, affirmed that he would do very well if he had fewer cakes and sweetmeats sent him from home; but the mother's heart turned from an opinion so harsh, and inclined rather to the more refined idea that John's sallowness was owing to over-application and, perhaps, to pining after home.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)