bloodlessness

English

Etymology

From bloodless +‎ -ness.

Noun

bloodlessness (uncountable)

1. The characteristic of being bloodless.
   • 1900, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “Battle of Magersfontein”, in The Great Boer War, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC, page 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, chapter 9, in Lost on Venus‎^[1]:

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

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

     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
• Russian: бескровие n (beskrovije), бескровность (ru) f (beskrovnostʹ)
• Slovak: bezkrvnosť f
• Turkish: kansızlık (tr)

See also

• bloodiness