existlessness

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

existless +‎ -ness

Noun[edit]

existlessness (uncountable)

  1. (rare, literary) nonexistence
    • 1912, Thomas Hardy, The Voice:
      Or is it only the breeze, in its listlessness
      Travelling across the wet mead to me here,
      You being ever consigned to existlessness,
      Heard no more again far or near?

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