booklessness

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

bookless +‎ -ness

Noun[edit]

booklessness (uncountable)

  1. The state or condition of being bookless; lack of books.
    • 1895, Hastings Rashdall, The Universities of Europe in the Middle Ages:
      […] but facts such as these warn us against the exaggerated and indeed absurd statements often made as to the booklessness of the medieval student.
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