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bloodlessness

noun

Etymology

From bloodless + -ness.

  1. derived from blōdlēas
  2. derived from blodles
  3. formed as bloodlessness — “bloodless + -ness”

Definitions

  1. The characteristic of being bloodless.

    • The most striking lesson of the engagement is the extreme bloodiness of modern warfare under some conditions, and its bloodlessness under others.
    • The feature that struck me most forcibly was the strange hue of their skin, a repulsive, unhealthy pallor, a seeming bloodlessness.
    • Her heart rebelled against the bloodlessness of his precision, but she had begun to watch him with a grudging admiration for a quality so alien to her own temperament.

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