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What is the noun for paleness?

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pale
  1. A wooden stake; a picket.
  2. (archaic) Fence made from wooden stake; palisade.
  3. (by extension) Limits, bounds (especially before of).
  4. The bounds of morality, good behaviour or judgment in civilized company, in the phrase beyond the pale.
  5. (heraldry) A vertical band down the middle of a shield.
  6. (archaic) A territory or defensive area within a specific boundary or under a given jurisdiction.
    1. (historical) The parts of Ireland under English jurisdiction.
    2. (historical) The territory around Calais under English control (from the 14th to 16th centuries).
    3. (historical) A portion of Russia in which Jews were permitted to live.
  7. (archaic) The jurisdiction (territorial or otherwise) of an authority.
  8. A cheese scoop.
  9. A shore for bracing a timber before it is fastened.
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  11. Examples:
    1. “To make it more secure, push stones into the ground around the edge of the pale.”
      “On this island, very few of the many important indigenous plants have ever been brought within the pale of cultivation.”
paling
pallor
  1. Paleness; want of color; pallidity.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The treated limb will show patchy areas of pallor caused by arteriolar constriction.”
      “And so, once again, the Democrats reaped the bitter harvest of their own pallor and incompetence.”
      “Her sun baked skin had deteriorated to a grey, sickly pallor and her eyes had lost its bright sparkle.”
paleness
  1. The condition or degree of being pale or of lacking color.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Her paleness, as if she had never seen the sun, was often mistaken for illness.”
      “The paleness of the room's lighting made it difficult to read the fine print.”
      “He noticed the drag in Michael's step, the paleness of his usually dark face, and the dullness in his eyes.”
pallidity
  1. The state of being pallid or pale.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Opposites cancel, the story falls flat, and pallidity ensues.”
pallidness
  1. The characteristic of being pallid.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The subject is the pallidness of life in those who never manage to engage in more than a shadowy existence on the fringe of active life.”
      “Sam's face paled even more, his pallidness contrasting violently with his raven hair.”
      “The most common type of leprosy causes the pallidness of the skin which proves that people had to have melanin first in order for them to become leprous.”
pale
  1. (obsolete) Paleness; pallor.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “To make it more secure, push stones into the ground around the edge of the pale.”
      “On this island, very few of the many important indigenous plants have ever been brought within the pale of cultivation.”
pallidities
palenesses
palings
  1. plural of paling
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Some were working outside a thick palisade of wooden palings which ran circling outside the buildings.”
      “One minute Mick is sitting with us, the next minute he's up and pulling the palings off the back fence.”
      “Apparently a party is when total strangers crazed on drugs and booze turn up and rip out your fence palings.”
pallors
  1. plural of pallor
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  3. Examples:
    1. “By and by appeared the faint lights of the house, with blotchy pallors thinning the mist and darkness.”
      “Fashion pundits went wild for the heroin chic image which saw superwaif models sashaying down the catwalk with deathly pallors and half-starved figures.”
pales
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