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historylessness

historylessness noun: absence of history.

Noun

historylessness (uncountable)

  1. Absence of history.
    • Brodber uses the most commonly recognized tropes of Caribbean discourse—and, to borrow a term from Gates's Signifying Monkey, " tropes the tropes" of exile, self-hatred, self-alienation, and longing for the sought after prestige of privileged white Otherness, elevating elsewhereism, accepting as...2006, June E. Roberts, Reading Erna Brodber, page 58

Origin of historylessness

From historyless + -ness.

Questions about historylessness

What does historylessness mean?
Historylessness means absence of history.
What part of speech is historylessness?
Historylessness is a noun.

Words near historylessness in the dictionary

  1. history-sheeter
  2. history-sheeters
  3. historybounding
  4. historying
  5. historyless
  6. historylessness
  7. historylike
  8. historymaker
  9. historymakers
  10. historywise
  11. histoscientist

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