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Definition: Wanness |
WannessNoun1. Unnatural lack of color in the skin (as from bruising or sickness or emotional distress). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "wanness" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1838. (references) |
Synonyms: WannessSynonyms: achromasia (n), lividity (n), lividness (n), luridness (n), paleness (n), pallidness (n), pallor (n). (additional references) |
| Language | Translations for "wanness"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | شحوب (ash, paleness, pallidness, pallor, sallowness, sickliness, whiteness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | tristesse, pâleur. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Blässe (colorlessness, colourlessness, paleness, pallidness, pallor, sallowness, sickliness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ωχρότησ (luridness, paleness, pallidness, pallor, sallowness), ωχρότητα (blindly, luridness, paleness, pallor, sallowness, shopping center, whiteness), χλωμότησ, χλωμότητα, χλωμάδα (paleness, pallor). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | sápadtság (paleness, pallidness, pallor, whiteness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | pallore (paleness, pallor, sallowness, whiteness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | treihys (abjection, abjectness, desolation, desolation of persons, fragility, haggardness, misery, pallor, pathos, sallowness, wretchedness), treihid (feebleness, haggardness, miserableness, paleness), glassid (crudeness, greenness, greyness, sappiness), drogh-neeal (sickly look). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | annessway paliditate, gãlbejealã (paleness, sickliness). (various references) duaichneachd (gloom, ugliness). (various references) palidez (paleness, pallidity, pallidness, pallor, sickliness, whiteness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | pallor, pallore. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "wanness": wannesses. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "wanness" (pronounced 'Wan"ness'): Abruptness, Abstruseness, Absurdness, Acuteness, Adaptness, Adeptness, Adroitness, Adultness, Albiness, Alertness, Allness, Aloneness, Aloofness, Animoseness, Antiqueness, Apartness, Apertness, Aptness, Archness, Arguteness, Augustness, Austereness, Averseness, Badness, Baldness, Bareness, Baseness, Bigness, Blackness, Blandness, Blankness, Blindness, Blitheness, Blondness, Blueness, Bluffness, Bluntness, Boldness, Braveness, Briefness, brightness, Briskness, Broadness, Brownness, Brusqueness, Bruteness, Budgeness, Business, Calmness, Cavalierness. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-n-n-s-s-w" | |
-1 letter: sennas, sewans. | |
-2 letters: sanes, senna, sensa, sewan, snaws, swans, wanes, weans. | |
-3 letters: anes, anew, awes, awns, nans, ness, news, sane, sans, sawn, saws, seas, sewn, sews, snaw, swan, waes, wane, wans, wean, wens. | |
-4 letters: ane, ass, awe, awn, ens, ess, nae, nan, naw, new, sae, saw, sea, sen, sew, wae, wan, was, wen. | |
-5 letters: ae. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-n-n-s-s-w" | |
+2 letters: newsstand, tawniness, wannesses. | |
+3 letters: brawniness, inwardness, narrowness, newsagents, newsstands, nonanswers, swankiness, swanneries, unwariness, wantonness. | |
+4 letters: rawinsondes, scrawniness, tawninesses, unawareness, womanliness. | |
+5 letters: brawninesses, downwardness, inwardnesses, narrownesses, swainishness, swankinesses, unlawfulness, untowardness, unwarinesses, unwashedness, wantonnesses, womanishness. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)57 61 6E 6E 65 73 73 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--. .- -. -. . ... ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010111 01100001 01101110 01101110 01100101 01110011 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)W a n n e s s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0057 0061 006E 006E 0065 0073 0073 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)57678080718585 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Translations: Modern 4. Translations: Ancient | 5. Derivations 6. Rhymes 7. Anagrams 8. Orthography | 9. Bibliography |
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