lividity

[ li-vid-i-tee ]

/ lɪˈvɪd ɪ ti /

noun

a discolored, bluish appearance caused by a bruise, pooling of blood due to congestion of blood vessels, strangulation, etc.: When the dead person is lying on their back, lividity will form on the buttocks, back, or backs of the legs.

a grayish or ashen appearance of the face; pallor: The traditional ghost image usually involves a certain paleness of the face—a corpselike lividity.

furious anger: When the generator they’d ordered arrived late and then failed to work, her lividity knew no bounds.

a reddish appearance of the face, as from strong emotion or embarrassment: I was on the shore with my parents, watching the sky flush scarlet with a hue like lividity rising to an angry face.

Sometimes liv·id·ness [liv-id-nis] /ˈlɪv ɪd nɪs/ .

Words nearby lividity

live wire, live with, liveyer, Livia Drusilla, livid, lividity, living, living bandage, living bank, living daylights, living death

Example sentences from the Web for lividity

His motionless face has the lividity of wax; his lips are violet and half open.
Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck|Jethro Bithell
A kind of lividity spread over the picture, bleaching it of all colour.
In Mesopotamia|Martin Swayne
The lividity, yes; but one could think of that as simply the shadow of death.
The Trial of Callista Blake|Edgar Pangborn
A hiccough commenced; coldness of the extremities and lividity of the face followed, and continued three days before death.
Cases of Organic Diseases of the Heart|John Collins Warren

Insensibility, stertorous breathing, lividity of face and body, and death from asphyxia.
Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology|W. G. Aitchison Robertson

单词	lividity
释义	lividity [ li-vid-i-tee ] / lɪˈvɪd ɪ ti / noun a discolored, bluish appearance caused by a bruise, pooling of blood due to congestion of blood vessels, strangulation, etc.: When the dead person is lying on their back, lividity will form on the buttocks, back, or backs of the legs. a grayish or ashen appearance of the face; pallor: The traditional ghost image usually involves a certain paleness of the face—a corpselike lividity. furious anger: When the generator they’d ordered arrived late and then failed to work, her lividity knew no bounds. a reddish appearance of the face, as from strong emotion or embarrassment: I was on the shore with my parents, watching the sky flush scarlet with a hue like lividity rising to an angry face. Sometimes liv·id·ness [liv-id-nis] /ˈlɪv ɪd nɪs/ . Words nearby lividity live wire, live with, liveyer, Livia Drusilla, livid, lividity, living, living bandage, living bank, living daylights, living death Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for lividity His motionless face has the lividity of wax; his lips are violet and half open. Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck\|Jethro Bithell A kind of lividity spread over the picture, bleaching it of all colour. In Mesopotamia\|Martin Swayne The lividity, yes; but one could think of that as simply the shadow of death. The Trial of Callista Blake\|Edgar Pangborn A hiccough commenced; coldness of the extremities and lividity of the face followed, and continued three days before death. Cases of Organic Diseases of the Heart\|John Collins Warren Insensibility, stertorous breathing, lividity of face and body, and death from asphyxia. Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology\|W. G. Aitchison Robertson
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