What does sunlessness mean?
Sunlessness means The state or characteristic of being without the sun or sunshine..
Sunlessness
Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
Meaning
The state or characteristic of being without the sun or sunshine..
Definitions by Sense
- The state or characteristic of being without the sun or sunshine.
- (figuratively) Dreariness, joylessness.
Example Sentences
In Penzance and Falmouth, the total eclipse will last for 2 minutes 2 seconds. The longest period of sunlessness will be in Romania, at 2 mins 23 seconds.
The honor she paid the honesty of these women helped her much to pity the sunlessness of their existence, and the poor end for which they lived.
Given such an aware sensibility, they move, it seems to me, marginally past the sunlessness of a great deal of the wasteland literature of this century, and past the literature of despair of our own day.
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How do you use sunlessness in a sentence?
In Penzance and Falmouth, the total eclipse will last for 2 minutes 2 seconds. The longest period of sunlessness will be in Romania, at 2 mins 23 seconds.
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