Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

historylessness

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: his-to-ry-less-ness
IPA

21

Scrabble Score

15

Letters

5

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Absence of history.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"Brodber uses the most commonly recognized tropes of Caribbean discourse—and, to borrow a term from Gates's Signifying Monkey, " tropes the tropes" of exile, self-hatred, self-alienation, and longing for the sought after prestige of privileged white Otherness, elevating elsewhereism, accepting as natural a hegemonically imposed sense of historylessness, split subjectivity, dependence and psychic fragmentation."

Etymology

From historyless + -ness.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: historyless

Usage

Uncountable

Questions

What does historylessness mean?: Absence of history.
Where does historylessness come from?: From historyless + -ness.

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