answerlessness

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English

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Etymology

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answerless +‎ -ness

Noun

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answerlessness (uncountable)

  1. Absence of an answer.
    • 2022, Maddie Mortimer, Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies, Picador, page 132:
      Lia was taken aback by the question, thrown by the plain answerlessness of it.