different between livid vs lividity

English

Etymology

From Middle English livid, livide, from Old French livide, from Latin l?vidus (“bluish, livid; envious”), from l?ve? (“be of a bluish color or livid; envy”), from Proto-Italic *sliw??, from Proto-Indo-European *sliwo-, suffixed form of *(s)leh?y- (“bluish”). See also Old English sl? (“sloe”), Welsh lliw (“splendor, color”), Old Irish li, Lithuanian slyvas (“plum”), and Russian and Old Church Slavonic ????? (sliva, “plum”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?l?v?d/
• Hyphenation: li?vid

Adjective

livid (comparative livider or more livid, superlative lividest or most livid)

1. Having a dark, bluish appearance.
2. Pale, pallid.
3. (informal) So angry that one turns pale; very angry; furious.

Synonyms

• (dark, bluish appearance): See also Thesaurus:bluish and Thesaurus:purplish
• (pallid): See also Thesaurus:pallid
• (very angry): See also Thesaurus:angry

Derived terms

• lividity
• lividly
• lividness

Translations

See also

• scorch

Middle English

Alternative forms

• livide

Etymology

Middle French livide, from Latin l?vidus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?li?vid(?)/, /?livid(?)/

Adjective

livid

1. livid, blue (color)

Descendants

• English: livid

References

• “l??vid(e, adj. & n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-03-30.

Noun

livid (uncountable)

1. livid, blue (color)

Descendants

• English: livid

References

• “l??vid(e, adj. & n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-03-30.

See also

Romanian

Etymology

From French livide, from Latin lividus.

Adjective

livid m or n (feminine singular livid?, masculine plural livizi, feminine and neuter plural livide)

1. livid

Declension

English

Etymology

From livid +? -ity; compare French lividité.

Noun

lividity (usually uncountable, plural lividities)

1. (uncountable) The state or quality of being livid.
2. (countable) A livid area of skin, such as a bruise, or as is often found on cadavers.
3. (uncountable) Livor mortis, suggillation.

Synonyms

• lividness

Related terms

• livid
• lividly

Translations

References

• lividity in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.