pallor

Etymology

From Middle English pallour, from Old French palor (“paleness, pallor”), from Latin pallor, from palleō (“look pale, blanch”).

noun

1. Paleness; want of color; pallidity; wanness.
   pallor of the complexion
   "Sir," said the butler, turning to a sort of mottled pallor, "that thing was not my master, and there's the truth. My master"—here he looked round him and began to whisper—"is a tall, fine build of a man, and this was more of a dwarf." 1886, Robert Louis Stevenson, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
   Over those seamed cheeks there was a certain pallor, a grayness caught from many a vigil 1900 April, Willa Cather, “Eric Hermannson's Soul”, in Cosmopolitan
   Catch-22 is defined by the sickly pallor of its visual palette (a jaundiced tint that at least goes with Yossarian’s point of view and phony liver pains) and the way it makes the slog of its characters’ deployment a little too literal. 16 May 2019, Erik Adams, “A potent satire has its wings clipped in Catch-22”, in The A.V. Club