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answerlessness

noun

Etymology

From answerless + -ness.

  1. derived from *andaswarō✻
  2. derived from *swer-✻
  3. derived from swerian
  4. derived from *h₂ent-✻
  5. inherited from andswaru
  6. inherited from answere
  7. formed as answerless — “answer + -less”
  8. suffixed as answerlessness — “answerless + ness”

Definitions

  1. Absence of an answer.

    • Lia was taken aback by the question, thrown by the plain answerlessness of it.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for answerlessness. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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