noun The state of being livid; the peculiar darkness of color exhibited by bruised flesh.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
noun The state or quality of being livid.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
noun The state or quality of being livid.
noun A livid area of skin, such as a bruise, or as is often found on cadavers.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
noun unnatural lack of color in the skin (as from bruising or sickness or emotional distress)
noun a state of fury so great the face becomes discolored
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
From livid + -ity; compare French lividité.
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word lividity.
Examples
She would have been dead for a number of hours, then there would have been post-mortem evidence of signs, such as lividity, discoloration after death, and stiffness after death, and those were not present.
Washington - Al Schuler, one of 12 jurors weighing the fate of a 23-year-old charged with killing a homeless man in Maryland, was confused by the word "lividity" and what role it might have played in explaining the circumstances of the victim's beating death.
Al Schuler, one of 12 jurors weighing the fate of a 23-year-old charged with killing a homeless man in Maryland, was confused by the word "lividity" and what role it might have played in explaining the circumstances of the victim's beating death.
The guy in the photos with the lividity under the skin didn't get that way from not knowing how to mount a gun; he got it from unintentionally MIS mounting a gun.
The guy in the photos with the lividity under the skin didn't get that way from not knowing how to mount a gun; he got it from unintentionally MIS mounting a gun.
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.