pathlessnessn.
/ˈpɑːθləsnəs/, /ˈpaθləsnəs/, U.S. /ˈpæθləsnəs/ The state or fact of being pathless.
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society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > [noun] > the state of being trackless, pathless
inviousness1710
pathlessness1851
waylessness1874
1851 N. Hawthorne Main Street in Snow Image 99 The street..resolved into a drearier pathlessness than when the forest covered it.
1889 Spectator 13 Apr. An African forest..may stretch, like the forest of Aruwhimi, in unbroken gloom and pathlessness over an area equal to five Englands.
1926 B. Brownell New Universe iv. xvii. 403 The wolves and the other raw realities of the woods.., the utter pathlessness are too much to pay for freedom.
1993 Callaloo 16 548 She prepared to take her next few steps forward, into pathlessness,..when she heard a voice.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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