featurelessness
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- noun
- /ˈfiːtʃərləsnəs/
Examples
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I think it must be about featurelessness: the horror that comes from there being nothing there.
Blog text (5) -
As a child in New York in the 1950s, I saw whole neighborhoods of brownstone houses disappear almost overnight, to be replaced by taller brick buildings, the salient feature of which, even to a child's eye, was their featurelessness.
Academic text (2012) -
The featurelessness of the landscape made it hard to tell where one area ended and another began.
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Many people appreciated the art for its featurelessness, finding beauty in its simplicity and lack of detail.
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In the featurelessness of the room, she felt a strange sense of calm, as if there were no distractions to pull her focus away.
Synonyms
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A person or object that has no face
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Not having an attractive appearance
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Lack of clear detail that makes things hard to see or hear
A state of not being seen or heard by other people
Antonyms
How Distinctive
Surface Forms
Morphology
featurelessness = featureless (transparent) = feature + less + ness
The suffix '-ness' clearly denotes a state or quality derived from the adjective 'featureless'.
Etymology
The word featurelessness combines feature, a noticeable part, with -less meaning 'without' and -ness meaning a state. So featurelessness means 'the state of having no noticeable features', like a smooth plain or a face with no marks, which helps you remember its modern meaning.