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firelessness

firelessness noun: the absence of fire.

Noun

firelessness (uncountable)

  1. The absence of fire.
    • When anthropologist James Frazer examined reports of prehistoric firelessness, he found them equally full of fantasy, such as fire being brought by a cockatoo or being tamed after it was discovered in a woman's genitals.2010, Richard Wrangham, Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human, page 27

Origin of firelessness

From fireless + -ness.

Questions about firelessness

What does firelessness mean?
Firelessness means the absence of fire.
What part of speech is firelessness?
Firelessness is a noun.

Words near firelessness in the dictionary

  1. firekeepers
  2. fireland
  3. firelands
  4. fireless
  5. firelessly
  6. firelessness
  7. firelet
  8. firelets
  9. firelight
  10. firelighter
  11. firelighters

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