Definitions
Etymologies
- less + -ness (Wiktionary)
Examples
“It's like Obama's book "The Audacity of Hope", but McCain was clever and appended "- lessness" on the end of "Hope"!”
“Joe Bradley's simple installations (pictured at right) are examples of the "lessness" that underscores the exhibition.”
“Whether you call it "lessness," "unmonumental," or simply "life on Mars," it's clear there's a predominating feeling of fragility in the art world right now.”
“First it was the clerics forbidding child-lessness, now it's the economists.”
The Guardian: Response: We don't need to de-industrialise to meet our emissions targets
“If you want her out of your inbox, too, then block her address and enjoy the her-lessness that ensues.”
The Washington Post: Carolyn Hax: 'Nose job' adviser should get her nose out of your business
“Aside from Dominic West, I have found myself distracted by Joely Richardson British on “Nip/Tuck”, whose British vowels and r-lessness creep in to her speech every once in a while.”
Rambles at starchamber.com » Blog Archive » GIMME SOME CAW-FEE!
“After months of living with name-lessness, I have decided on a blog name!”
“Well...that's a mighty hard word to nail down, but shall we assume that when most people use the term they are describing a state in which there is more love, less ego, more sense of connection to the world, more actions in alignment with our deepest values, more acceptance of the transient nature of life, less fear, more action for long-term as opposed to short-term benefits, more "Self"-lessness?”
“For one thing, the sense of "paragraph-lessness" is receding.”
“Okay, so that may explain one aspect of the Republican natural-lessness, but there is so much more that has to be understood.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘lessness’.
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• Senses
They told you they're five.
sight, hearing, taste, touch, smell, proprioception, balance, temperature, parking, rhythm, business, snow and 68 more...
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some words
phatic, macerate, amanuenses, theophagy, seraglio, gloaming, geophagy, metaphone, anastrophe, neologism, tetragrammaton, bête noire and 568 more...
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Words I just like
hobbitry, obfuscate, moribund, bally, idleness, ale, lostwithiel, elfin, spiffing, wayfaring, methinks, abstruse and 123 more...
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Nihilarity
Absurdity, dark art, radicalism, anger, tragic irony, and nothingness. Tee-hee!
nihilism, dada, futurism, rayonism, postmodernity, deconstruction, surrealism, existentialism, reductio ad absurdum, discordianism, operation mindfuck, amorality and 127 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for lessness.
reesetee Sorry, dont. I know you don't like to. *snuffle* Jul 28, 2008
dontcry Oh great, *sniff* now I'm crying... Jul 24, 2008
reesetee That guy? He never comes around anymore. *sniff* Jul 24, 2008
dontcry I'd like to hear what uselessness has to say on this subject... Jul 18, 2008
oroboros The Age of Aquarius, for example, did not bring enlightenment, peace, and love, as we hoped, but professional anxieties and family duties spiced up with AIDS, McJobs, lessness, and biological warfare."
--Robert B. Laughlin, A Different Universe (Reinventing Physics From The Bottom Down), p.205 Jul 18, 2008
john "Two decades of academic postmodernizing have trailed off into embarrassed silence. One of the show’s curators, Henriette Huldisch, writing in the catalogue, borrows a title of Samuel Beckett’s to characterize the Zeitgeist: “Lessness.�? Not less is more. Less is all—get with it. (Good old Beckett, the never-fail appliance for glamorizing malaise.)"
- The New Yorker, "Lessness," by Peter Schjeldahl, March 17, 2008 Mar 20, 2008