English

edit

Etymology

edit

From existless +‎ -ness.

Noun

edit

existlessness (uncountable)

  1. (rare, literary) nonexistence
    • 1912, Thomas Hardy, The Voice:
      Or is it only the breeze, in its listlessness
      Travelling across the wet mead to me here,
      You being ever consigned to existlessness,
      Heard no more again far or near?

Synonyms

edit