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rhythmlessness

rhythmlessness noun: absence of rhythm.

Noun

rhythmlessness (uncountable)

  1. Absence of rhythm.
    • There is often little consciousness of meter, as if the music had reached a state of divine rhythmlessness.2000, Daniel Albright, Untwisting the Serpent: Modernism in Music, Literature, and Other Arts

Origin of rhythmlessness

From rhythmless + -ness.

Questions about rhythmlessness

What does rhythmlessness mean?
Rhythmlessness means absence of rhythm.
What part of speech is rhythmlessness?
Rhythmlessness is a noun.

Words near rhythmlessness in the dictionary

  1. rhythmized
  2. rhythmizes
  3. rhythmizing
  4. rhythmless
  5. rhythmlessly
  6. rhythmlessness
  7. rhythmogenesis
  8. rhythmogenetic
  9. rhythmogenic
  10. rhythmogenicity
  11. rhythmogram

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