bloodlessness

bloodlessness

English

Etymology

From bloodless +‎ -ness.

Noun

bloodlessness (uncountable)

1. The characteristic of being bloodless.
   • 1900, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Great Boer War, London: Smith, Elder & Co., Chapter 9, p. 162,

     The most striking lesson of the engagement is the extreme bloodiness of modern warfare under some conditions, and its bloodlessness under others.

   • 1933, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Lost on Venus, Chapter 9,

     The feature that struck me most forcibly was the strange hue of their skin, a repulsive, unhealthy pallor, a seeming bloodlessness.

   • 1946, Mervyn Peake, Titus Groan, London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, “The Grotto,”

     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.

Translations

the characteristic of being bloodless

Finnish: verettömyys Irish: neamhfholacht f Manx: neufuillaght f Polish: anemiczność (pl) f Slovak: bezkrvnosť f Turkish: kansızlık (tr)

See also

• bloodiness