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authorlessness

authorlessness noun: the condition of being without an author.

Noun

authorlessness (uncountable)

  1. The condition of being without an author.
    • The first deals with causality, chance and contingency, the second with the sources of cognitive validity. The third addresses the question of atheism and the issue of the authorlessness of the Veda (an important tenet of the Mimamsa school).1999, Journal of Indian Council of Philosophical Research
    • Murray offers a version of language in which timelessness and authorlessness go hand in hand.2000, Irene Tucker, A Probable State: The Novel, the Contract, and the Jews, →ISBN, page 211

Origin of authorlessness

From authorless + -ness.

Questions about authorlessness

What does authorlessness mean?
Authorlessness means the condition of being without an author.
What part of speech is authorlessness?
Authorlessness is a noun.

Words near authorlessness in the dictionary

  1. authorizer
  2. authorizers
  3. authorizes
  4. authorizing
  5. authorless
  6. authorlessness
  7. authorlike
  8. authorling
  9. authorlings
  10. authorly
  11. Authorpe

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