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thewlessness

thewlessness noun: the state, quality, or condition of being thewless.

Noun

thewlessness (uncountable)

  1. The state, quality, or condition of being thewless
    • A consequence of this which only worsens the intellectuals' thewlessness is that their antagonists are preaching a salvationary religion, and as Max Weber has said, such religions attract social strata in decline.1970, The Alternative: An American Spectator - Volumes 4-5
    • The cloying diminution of signification and significance—indeed the thewlessness of all aspects of meaning, whether semantic, syntactic or pragmatic—that befalls the conscious mind as a result of its tendance upon a symbol [...]1977, Richard League, Psycholinguistic Matrices: Investigation into Osgood and Morris

Origin of thewlessness

From thewless + -ness.

Questions about thewlessness

What does thewlessness mean?
Thewlessness means the state, quality, or condition of being thewless.
What part of speech is thewlessness?
Thewlessness is a noun.

Words near thewlessness in the dictionary

  1. thevofoline
  2. thew
  3. thewed
  4. thewing
  5. thewless
  6. thewlessness
  7. Thewlis
  8. Thewlises
  9. thewness
  10. thews
  11. thewsome

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