Sunlessness
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Sunlessness is a noun meaning The state or characteristic of being without the sun or sunshine.
Meaning
The state or characteristic of being without the sun or sunshine.
More Meanings
- (figuratively) Dreariness, joylessness.
Example Sentences
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.
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.
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.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include lightlessness, shadelessness, withoutness, skinlessness, daylessness, unlight.
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