manelessness

English

Etymology

From maneless +‎ -ness.

Noun

manelessness (uncountable)

1. The state of being maneless.
   • 1960, William Llewellyn Brown, The Etruscan Lion‎^[1], page 166:

     Yet the manelessness of the lioness is one of its most obvious features, and one which is never to my knowledge incorrectly shown by artists in the East where lions were familiar.

   • 2002 April, Philip Caputo, “Maneless Lions”, in National Geographic‎^[2]:

     But are they really tougher? And if so, is there any connection between their manelessness and their ferocity?

   • 2002 July 9, Anahad O'Connor, “Shaggy, or Not So Shaggy: A New Look at Lions' Manes”, in The New York Times‎^[3]:

     All of these things led them to suspect that manelessness was typical in some parts of Kenya and might have been widespread in Africa many decades ago.

Anagrams

• meanlessness, namelessness