Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

articlelessness

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: ar-ti-cle-less-ness
IPA

17

Scrabble Score

15

Letters

5

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Absence of a grammatical article.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

""Saturday" extends articlelessness into the sensations of a young working-class woman and the territory of his great second novel, Living."
"This method, however, does not do justice to the articlelessness of the Norwegian adjuncts, the fact that in this language, as also to a large extent in German and to some extent in English (cf. the locution with bowed head), the A + N constituents appear to be NPs or bare DPs."

Etymology

From articleless + -ness.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: articleless

Usage

Uncountable

Questions

What does articlelessness mean?: Absence of a grammatical article.
Where does articlelessness come from?: From articleless + -ness.

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