luridness

Noun

• the quality of being ghastly

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

• the journalistic use of subject matter that appeals to vulgar tastes
  • the tabloids relied on sensationalism to maintain their circulation
    

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• Synonyms: 
  ghastliness , grimness , gruesomeness , lividness , lividity , paleness , pallidness , pallor , wanness , achromasia , sensationalism