existlessness

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English

Etymology

existless +‎ -ness

Noun

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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