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Wanness

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Noun

1. achromasia, lividity, lividness, luridness, paleness, pallidness, pallor, wanness

unnatural lack of color in the skin (as from bruising or sickness or emotional distress)

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Wanness

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adjectiveWord forms: wanner or wannest
1. 
unnaturally pale, esp from sickness, grief, etc
2. 
characteristic or suggestive of ill health, unhappiness, etc
3. 
(of light, stars, etc) faint or dim
verbWord forms: wans, wanning or wanned
4. 
to make or become wan
abbreviation for
1. 
wide area network
2. 
Nigeria (international car registration)

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Wanness

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noun
wide area network: a computer network (sense 3) of geographically distant computers, terminals, etc.
adjectiveWord forms: ˈwanner or ˈwannest
1. 
sickly pale; pallid
a wan complexion
2. 
faint or weak in a way suggestive of sickness or great weariness, sadness, etc.
a wan smile
3. 
pale, dim, faint, etc.
a wan light
verb transitive, verb intransitiveWord forms: wanned or ˈwanning
4.  Rare
to make or become sickly pale
verb intransitive, verb transitive
Obsolete
win

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Wanness

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adj. wan·ner, wan·nest
1. Unnaturally pale, as from physical or emotional distress.
2. Suggestive or indicative of weariness, illness, or unhappiness; melancholy: a wan expression.
intr.v. wanned, wan·ning, wans
To become pale.

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