adlessness

English

Etymology

From adless +‎ -ness.

Noun

adlessness (uncountable)

1. (informal, rare) Absence of advertisements.
   • 1931, “Press: Anthony's Adlessness”, in Time‎^[1]:

     Much of [Norman's Anthony's magazine Ballyhoo is] devoted to [parodies] of [advertisements].

   • 1979, The Swedish Pioneer Historical Quarterly, volume 30, page 278:

     It is as though Sandburg equated adlessness with purity in journalism and the presence of ads as moral pollutant.

   • 1989, William David Sloan, American journalism history: an annotated bibliography, page 214:

     Yet he was tied to journalistic traditions in areas other than adlessness and tried no things really new in the Day Book.