Definitions
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- noun The state or condition of being
worldless .
Etymologies
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worldless + -ness
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Examples
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Again, we have in the reference to the "worldlessness" of instrumental calculation and its effects a unique Arendtian usage.
amor mundi 2009
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Frankenstein appears to have more reality than the worldlessness that constitutes Matilda.
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I had never said as much to any one before, but his watching eyes made me forget my shy worldlessness.
The White People 1917
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I had never said as much to any one before, but his watching eyes made me forget my shy worldlessness.
The White People Frances Hodgson Burnett 1886
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