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windowlessness

windowlessness noun: absence of windows.

Noun

windowlessness (uncountable)

  1. Absence of windows.
    • He entered the house and made his way to his father’s basement office, a room that lacked his mother’s signature spare style and featured instead dark wood and solid lamps and windowlessness. Those years of nocturnal study had left their mark, and Karamat Lone was at his most productive when there...2017, Kamila Shamsie, Home Fire, Bloomsbury (2018), page 103

Origin of windowlessness

From windowless + -ness.

Questions about windowlessness

What does windowlessness mean?
Windowlessness means absence of windows.
What part of speech is windowlessness?
Windowlessness is a noun.

Words near windowlessness in the dictionary

  1. windowing system
  2. windowing systems
  3. windowing up
  4. windowings
  5. windowless
  6. windowlessness
  7. windowlet
  8. windowlets
  9. windowlicker
  10. windowlickers
  11. windowlight

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