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answerlessness

answerlessness noun: absence of an answer.

Noun

answerlessness (uncountable)

  1. Absence of an answer.
    • Lia was taken aback by the question, thrown by the plain answerlessness of it.2022, Maddie Mortimer, Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies, Picador, page 132

Origin of answerlessness

From answerless + -ness.

Questions about answerlessness

What does answerlessness mean?
Answerlessness means absence of an answer.
What part of speech is answerlessness?
Answerlessness is a noun.

Words near answerlessness in the dictionary

  1. answering up
  2. answeringly
  3. answerings
  4. answerless
  5. answerlessly
  6. answerlessness
  7. answerphone
  8. answerphones
  9. answers
  10. answers back
  11. answers for

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