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lessness rare.|ˈlɛsnɪs|
[f. less a. + -ness.]
The quality or condition of being less; inferiority.
1635Gill Sacr. Philos. 59 Otherwise there should bee a greaternesse in being, and a lessenesse in working. 1868A. Sandeman Pelicotetics 188 The Multiple Test of the greaterness and lessness of the ratio. 1889Moule Secr. Prayer v. (1890) 84 Unspeakable lessness, dependence and obligation. 1961R. B. Long Sentence & its Parts iv. 99 Sometimes negation is semantically specialized to convey meanings of ‘lessness’, as in I don't have a dime. 1970S. Beckett (title) Lessness. |