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  • noun Plural form of blankness.

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Examples

  • Couples had appeared out of the day, cuddling on the deck, wrapped in arms, with various blanknesses of pleasantly fatigued expressions across their faces.

    Grant Whitney Harvey: Moonshadows: Part 2 2009

  • I can b logged owt, luk at fren page 8 frinstans and COPY deh page address, den log in, PASTE deh address adn go to it — blanknesses!

    It’s ok - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • He was conscious of an imperative necessity for speed and a great danger in acting too hurriedly; and a queer idea came to him that while in this loft he had been having a series of cataleptic fits -- sudden blanknesses, total arrests of volition if not of consciousness, during which he had stood still, listening or staring, but not doing anything to the rope.

    The Devil's Garden W. B. Maxwell 1902

  • Couples had appeared out of the day, cuddling on the deck, wrapped in arms, with various blanknesses of pleasantly fatigued expressions across their faces.

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com 2009

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