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overtakelessness

overtakelessness noun: the quality of being overtakeless (impossible to overtake or surpass).

Noun

overtakelessness (uncountable)

  1. (poetic, rare) The quality of being overtakeless (impossible to overtake or surpass).
    • The overtakelessness of those / Who have accomplished Death, / Majestic is to me beyond / The majesties of Earth.a. 1887 (date written), Emily Dickinson, “[Part 5: The Single Hound] XC”, in Martha Dickinson Bianchi and Alfred Leete Hampson, editors, The Poems of Emily Dickinson, centenary edition, Boston...
    • But more often than not she trusts that rare sensitivity of hers to take her slimly down, letting it intuitively choose her way and hunch her toward encounters. And it is only in those moments of overtakelessness, after she has gone through a world of as ifs, that we rest with her at the ends of...1984, Susan Strayer Deal, The Dark Is a Door, Boise, I.D.: Ahsahta Press, →ISBN, page iii

Origin of overtakelessness

From overtakeless + -ness.

Questions about overtakelessness

What does overtakelessness mean?
Overtakelessness means the quality of being overtakeless (impossible to overtake or surpass).
What part of speech is overtakelessness?
Overtakelessness is a noun.

Words near overtakelessness in the dictionary

  1. overtags
  2. overtakable
  3. overtake
  4. overtakeable
  5. overtakeless
  6. overtakelessness
  7. overtaken
  8. overtakenness
  9. overtaker
  10. overtakers
  11. overtakes

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