firelessness

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

fireless +‎ -ness

Noun[edit]

firelessness (uncountable)

  1. The absence of fire.
    • 2010, Richard Wrangham, Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human, page 27:
      When anthropologist James Frazer examined reports of prehistoric firelessness, he found them equally full of fantasy, such as fire being brought by a cockatoo or being tamed after it was discovered in a woman's genitals.
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