Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of being nameless or without a name; the state of being undistinguished.
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- noun The state or quality of being
nameless .
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- noun the state of being anonymous
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Examples
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His namelessness is explained purrfectly: cats know who they are, so they don't need names, unlike easily confused and self-conscious humans.
slayground: Favorite Fictional Felines Little Willow 2006
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It bothered Minyard, “this kind of disregard,” the namelessness of it all.
The Lampshade Mark Jacobson 2010
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Her namelessness has made her, for some, a representative of 19th-century womanhood.
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The namelessness of James's narrator seems fitting in a tale of genteel deceit.
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She was, as usual, generally friendly and polite, but she slipped in one dig: the namelessness of the nineties, she said, spoke volumes about the aimlessness of the administration.
The Great Experiment Strobe Talbott 2008
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How much a luxury it is to sink into namelessness.
Archive 2008-05-01 tanita davis 2008
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How much a luxury it is to sink into namelessness.
The WritingYA Weblog: Poetry Friday: The Name of the Rose tanita davis 2008
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Here mournfully went by a child who had never had a childhood or known a parent, inseparable from a youth with a bitter sense of his namelessness, coupled to a man the enforced business of whose best years had been distasteful and oppressive, linked to an ungrateful friend, dragging after him a woman once beloved.
Mugby Junction 2007
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Here mournfully went by a child who had never had a childhood or known a parent, inseparable from a youth with a bitter sense of his namelessness, coupled to a man the enforced business of whose best years had been distasteful and oppressive, linked to an ungrateful friend, dragging after him a woman once beloved.
Mugby Junction 2007
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Not only are these entities nameless and faceless, their namelessness and facelessness make them that much more menacing.
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