newslessadj.
/ˈnjuːzləs/, U.S. /ˈn(j)uzləs/ Lacking or devoid of news; having no news to tell.
ΘΚΠ
society > communication > information > news or tidings > [adjective] > full of news > not
newsless1746
tidingless1822
1746 H. Walpole Let. 5 Dec. in Lett. to H. Mann (1833) II. 191 We are in such a news-less situation, that I have been some time too without writing to you.
1754 H. Walpole Lett. (1846) III. 83 I am as newsless as in the dead of summer.
1865 Daily Tel. 13 Apr. 5 The disappointed and newsless Briton.
1881 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 130 270 His adventures were like a page from the ‘Arabian Nights’ after the soldier's newsless life.
1914 T. A. Baggs Back from Front 116 Newsless French newspapers signified a German reverse.
1997 A. Elliot Facing Things 39 When it stops talking on the mantelshelf, That silence of significance will spread Even to the newsless circles of our dead.
Derivatives
ˈnewslessness n.
ΘΚΠ
society > communication > information > news or tidings > [noun] > quality or characteristic of being full of news > being without news
newslessness1860
1860 Harper's Mag. Oct. 581/1 Then followed silence and newslessness for three months.
1971 S. Howatch Penmarric (1972) v. x. 696 Absolutely no news here, darling—really, I feel I'm letting you down with so much newslessness.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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