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flowerlessness

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English

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Etymology

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From flowerless +‎ -ness.

Noun

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flowerlessness (uncountable)

  1. The absence of flowers.
    • 1909, Reginald Farrer, In a Yorkshire Garden:
      And, to this bare and innutritious place have I, after years of flowerlessness, removed my great old bush of Chimonanthus fragrans from the Terrace Wall.