ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Authorlessness

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Authorlessness is a noun meaning The condition of being without an author.

Meaning

The condition of being without an author.

Example Sentences

Murray offers a version of language in which timelessness and authorlessness go hand in hand.
The first deals with causality, chance and contingency, the second with the sources of cognitive validity. The third addresses the question of atheism and the issue of the authorlessness of the Veda (an important tenet of the Mimamsa school).
Moving on from the issues of the self-reflective museum, the end of the museum, and the issue of truth claims, I think one of the issues here is about the ostensible authorlessness of the traditional museum, if you like, and this is how its truth claim works in a sense.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include masterlessness, lordlessness, titlelessness, agentlessness, anarchy, anchorlessness.

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