naturelessadj.
/ˈneɪtʃələs/, U.S. /ˈneɪtʃərləs/ Now rare.
Not having a vital nature; spec. (of things) lacking substance or significance; (of God) existing outside the natural world. Occasionally also: not in accordance with nature; unnatural.
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the world > life > source or principle of life > absence of life or consciousness > [adjective]
lifelessOE
unlivingOE
bloodless and bonelessOE
deadlya1225
dead1430
natureless1548
exanimate1552
inanimatea1555
unlively1563
spiritless1570
unquickened1610
unanimate1615
inanimal1623
inanimated1646
unvital1661
unanimated1697
unbreathing1709
unconscious1744
pulseless1820
azoic1854
not-living1869
abiotic1873
unvitalized1874
the world > relative properties > order > disorder > irregularity > unconformity > abnormality > [adjective] > abnormal or unnatural
wicked13..
innaturalc1400
monstruousc1425
wick?c1425
disnaturalc1430
monstrousa1464
unnatural1516
natureless1548
prodigious1569
non-natural1650
disnatured1764
1548 E. Gest Treat. againste Masse sig. Biv What semblance..is ther betwyxte the natureles bread and wyne, and christes body and bloud?
1644 J. Milton in tr. M. Bucer Ivdgem. conc. Divorce To Parl. sig. Bv Under a bondage not of Gods constraining with a natureles constraint..but laid upon us imperiously.
1817 S. T. Coleridge Let. (1959) IV. 760 A Godless Nature and a Natureless abstract God.
1931 Internat. Jrnl. Ethics 41 420 In the beginning is God..who is neither good nor evil because he is natureless and passionless.
1981 Jrnl. Philos. 78 250 ‘Matter’ is in itself natureless and indeterminate, even in respect of quantity.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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