peakedness

adjective

1. pale and drawn in appearance so as to suggest illness or stress; wan and sickly.

adjective

1. having a peak; pointed

adj.“sickly-looking,” 1835, from past participle of obsolete verb peak “look sickly or thin, shrink, waste away” (1540s), which is perhaps from peak in sense of “become pointed” through emaciation. Related: Peakedness.