bloodlessness en · NOUN
Etymology
Etymology tree English bloodless Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English bloodlessness From bloodless + -ness.
Meanings
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(uncountable) The characteristic of being bloodless.
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.
1946, Mervyn Peake, “The Grotto”, in Titus Groan, London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, →OCLC:The most striking lesson of the engagement is the extreme bloodiness of modern warfare under some conditions, and its bloodlessness under others.
1900, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “Battle of Magersfontein”, in The Great Boer War, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC, page 162:The feature that struck me most forcibly was the strange hue of their skin, a repulsive, unhealthy pallor, a seeming bloodlessness.
1933, Edgar Rice Burroughs, chapter 9, in Lost on Venus:
Relateds
Translations (8)
pl anemiczność (the characteristic of being bloodless) · ru бескровие (the characteristic of being bloodless) · gv neufuillaght (the characteristic of being bloodless) · sk bezkrvnosť (the characteristic of being bloodless) · ru бескровность (the characteristic of being bloodless) · ga neamhfholacht (the characteristic of being bloodless) · fi verettömyys (the characteristic of being bloodless) · tr kansızlık (the characteristic of being bloodless)