Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality or condition of being less; diminution; abatement; inferiority; insignificance; meanness.
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- noun philosophy The state or condition of being
less .
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Examples
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It's like Obama's book "The Audacity of Hope", but McCain was clever and appended "- lessness" on the end of "Hope"!
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Joe Bradley's simple installations (pictured at right) are examples of the "lessness" that underscores the exhibition.
The Fine Art of Less 2008
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Whether you call it "lessness," "unmonumental," or simply "life on Mars," it's clear there's a predominating feeling of fragility in the art world right now.
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Whether you call it "lessness," "unmonumental," or simply "life on Mars," it's clear there's a predominating feeling of fragility in the art world right now.
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Whether you call it "lessness," "unmonumental," or simply "life on Mars," it's clear there's a predominating feeling of fragility in the art world right now.
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Whether you call it "lessness," "unmonumental," or simply "life on Mars," it's clear there's a predominating feeling of fragility in the art world right now.
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Whether you call it "lessness," "unmonumental," or simply "life on Mars," it's clear there's a predominating feeling of fragility in the art world right now.
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Whether you call it "lessness," "unmonumental," or simply "life on Mars," it's clear there's a predominating feeling of fragility in the art world right now.
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First it was the clerics forbidding child-lessness, now it's the economists.
Response: We don't need to de-industrialise to meet our emissions targets 2011
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If you want her out of your inbox, too, then block her address and enjoy the her-lessness that ensues.
Carolyn Hax: 'Nose job' adviser should get her nose out of your business 2010
john commented on the word lessness
"Two decades of academic postmodernizing have trailed off into embarrassed silence. One of the show’s curators, Henriette Huldisch, writing in the catalogue, borrows a title of Samuel Beckett’s to characterize the Zeitgeist: “Lessness.�? Not less is more. Less is all—get with it. (Good old Beckett, the never-fail appliance for glamorizing malaise.)"
- The New Yorker, "Lessness," by Peter Schjeldahl, March 17, 2008
March 20, 2008
oroboros commented on the word lessness
The Age of Aquarius, for example, did not bring enlightenment, peace, and love, as we hoped, but professional anxieties and family duties spiced up with AIDS, McJobs, lessness, and biological warfare."
--Robert B. Laughlin, A Different Universe (Reinventing Physics From The Bottom Down), p.205
July 18, 2008
dontcry commented on the word lessness
I'd like to hear what uselessness has to say on this subject...
July 19, 2008
reesetee commented on the word lessness
That guy? He never comes around anymore. *sniff*
July 24, 2008
dontcry commented on the word lessness
Oh great, *sniff* now I'm crying...
July 24, 2008
reesetee commented on the word lessness
Sorry, dont. I know you don't like to. *snuffle*
July 29, 2008