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businesslessness

businesslessness noun: the quality of lacking business or businesses.

Noun

businesslessness (uncountable)

  1. (rare) The quality of lacking business or businesses.
    • Butter vulnerability, though than the threat of businesslessness as dictated by the invention of an environmental engineer from the Electric Boat. Div. of General Dynamics at Groton, Conn.1971, Journal of the American Water Works Association, volume 63, page 540
    • my own businesslessness / reading fortunes on the ceiling1997 December 4, zxxx, “suddenly something”, in rec.arts.poems (Usenet)

Origin of businesslessness

From businessless + -ness.

Questions about businesslessness

What does businesslessness mean?
Businesslessness means the quality of lacking business or businesses.
What part of speech is businesslessness?
Businesslessness is a noun.

Words near businesslessness in the dictionary

  1. businesses
  2. businessese
  3. businessfolk
  4. businessfolks
  5. businessless
  6. businesslessness
  7. businesslike
  8. businesslikely
  9. businesslikeness
  10. businessman
  11. businessman's LSD

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