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Meaning of "namelessness" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF NAMELESSNESS

namelessness  [ˈneɪmləsnəs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF NAMELESSNESS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Namelessness is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES NAMELESSNESS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

namelessness

Anonymity

Anonymity, adjective "anonymous", is derived from the Greek word ἀνωνυμία, anonymia, meaning "without a name" or "namelessness". In colloquial use, "anonymous" is used to describe situations where the acting person's name is unknown. The most important example for anonymity being not only protected, but enforced by law is probably the vote in free elections. In many other situations, anonymity is traditionally accepted as natural. There are also various situations in which a person might choose to withhold their identity. Acts of charity have been performed anonymously when benefactors do not wish to be acknowledged. A person who feels threatened might attempt to mitigate that threat through anonymity. A witness to a crime might seek to avoid retribution, for example, by anonymously calling a crime tipline. Criminals might proceed anonymously to conceal their participation in a crime. Anonymity may also be created unintentionally, through the loss of identifying information due to the passage of time or a destructive event. In certain situations, however, it may be illegal to remain anonymous.

Definition of namelessness in the English dictionary

The first definition of namelessness in the dictionary is the quality or state of being without a name; anonymousness. Other definition of namelessness is the quality or state of being incapable of being named; indescribableness. Namelessness is also the quality or state of being too unpleasant or disturbing to be mentioned.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH NAMELESSNESS


airlessness
ˈɛələsnəs
blamelessness
ˈbleɪmləsnəs
bottomlessness
ˈbɒtəmləsnəs
dreamlessness
ˈdriːmləsnəs
effortlessness
ˈɛfətləsnəs
endlessness
ˈɛndləsnəs
fabulousness
ˈfæbjʊləsnəs
fathomlessness
ˈfæðəmləsnəs
flawlessness
ˈflɔːləsnəs
godlessness
ˈɡɒdləsnəs
harmlessness
ˈhɑːmləsnəs
heedlessness
ˈhiːdləsnəs
jealousness
ˈdʒɛləsnəs
landlessness
ˈlændləsnəs
meaninglessness
ˈmiːnɪŋləsnəs
mindlessness
ˈmaɪndləsnəs
seamlessness
ˈsiːmləsnəs
statelessness
ˈsteɪtləsnəs
weightlessness
ˈweɪtləsnəs
worklessness
ˈwɜːkləsnəs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE NAMELESSNESS

name names
name of the game
name part
name the day
name-calling
name-drop
name-dropper
name-dropping
nameable
namecheck
nameless
namelessly
namely
Namen
nameplate
namer
namesake
nametag
nametape
nameworthy

WORDS THAT END LIKE NAMELESSNESS

biliousness
business
callousness
carelessness
consciousness
deliciousness
deviousness
helplessness
hilariousness
homelessness
hopelessness
lawlessness
nervousness
obviousness
preciousness
restlessness
ridiculousness
righteousness
seriousness
unconsciousness
viciousness

Synonyms and antonyms of namelessness in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «namelessness» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF NAMELESSNESS

Find out the translation of namelessness to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of namelessness from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «namelessness» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

无名
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

namelessness
570 millions of speakers

English

namelessness
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

namelessness
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الإبهام
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

безымянность
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

anonimato
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

namelessness
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

namelessness
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Tanpa nama
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Namenlosigkeit
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

namelessness
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

namelessness
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Ora ana gunane
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

namelessness
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

namelessness
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अनामिकता
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

isimsizliği
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

namelessness
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

bezimienności
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

безіменність
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

namelessness
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

namelessness
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

ongenaamdheid
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

namelessness
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

namelessness
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of namelessness

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «NAMELESSNESS»

The term «namelessness» is normally little used and occupies the 148.690 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «NAMELESSNESS» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «namelessness» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «namelessness» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about namelessness

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «NAMELESSNESS»

Discover the use of namelessness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to namelessness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Naming and Namelessness in Medieval Romance
A survey of the significance of names, or their absence, in medieval English, French, and Anglo-Norman romance.
Jane Bliss, 2008
2
Deep Talk: Reading African-American Literary Names
In such cases, namelessness signals the "absent presence" of secret names. These are names whose existence is mentioned in dialogues, narration, and book titles without actually appearing themselves in the narrative text. Ralph Ellison's ...
Debra Walker King, 1998
3
Beyond a Dream Deferred: Multicultural Education and the ...
This state of perpetual and inheritable domination that diaspora Africans had at birth produced the modern black diaspora problematic of invisibility and namelessness. White supremacist practices — enacted under the auspices of the  ...
Becky W. Thompson, Sangeeta Tyagi
4
I Feel a Little Jumpy Around You: A Book of Her Poems & His ...
Naomi Shihab Nye Namelessness David Wevill Phyllis Janowitz By now after all these years I don't know who the “you” is any more when the word writes itself instead of a name or an honest detail. I had forbidden myself this vagueness, this  ...
Naomi Shihab Nye, Paul B. Janeczko, 2010
5
Authority Figures: Metaphors of Mastery from the Iliad to ...
At a crucial moment (20.1-24), the night before his day of vengeance, Odysseus recalls that similar moment in the Cyclops' cave when he first learned to submit to the solitude of namelessness. Names are the verbal equivalent to visual marks ...
Christopher Collins, 1996
6
Acts of Naming : The Family Plot in Fiction: The Family Plot ...
I do this by exploring the way in which both British and American novels contemplate another form of namelessness — not namelessness in the American wilderness, not namelessness that encourages earning a name through courage or ...
Michael Ragussis Associate Professor of English Georgetown University, 1987
7
The Labyrinth of Universality: Wilson Harris's Visionary Art ...
Palace. of. the. Peacock. I. Voyage. into. Namelessness. ALACE OF THE PEACOCK, the opening movement of the Guyana Quartet, is the first, preludial panel in the long narrative canvas in which, from one instalment, or novel, to the next, ...
Hena Maes-Jelinek, 2006
8
Paul Celan and Martin Heidegger: An Unresolved Conversation, ...
One continues an assertion similar to what he had read in Wrong Paths when it noted that the poet lives in "namelessness," a formulation that must have resonated with the isolated Jewish exile in Paris who was struggling to articulate his ...
James K. Lyon, 2006
9
Justin Martyr: his life, writings and opinions, tr. by J.E. ...
Hence, as Justin had not adopted Plato's notion of such a simplicity of the Divine existence, he could not call God nameless, in the Platonic sense.8 We do not, indeed, maintain that the patristic doctrine of the namelessness of God 1 Apcl. 2, 6, ...
Carl Gottlob Semisch, 1843
10
Godhead and the Nothing
For even if our world has more comprehensively known the anonymity of God than any other world, such an anonymity is surely not an evocation of or a witness to an undifferentiated Godhead, and cannot be if only because the namelessness ...
Thomas J. J. Altizer, 2003

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «NAMELESSNESS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term namelessness is used in the context of the following news items.
1
'We Are (Blank)': Penn State Football Removing Names From Jerseys
... back of the team's jerseys, something which changed in 2012 under then-head coach Bill O'Brien after over 12 decades of namelessness. «Headlines & Global News, Jul 15»
2
Lois Tilton reviews Short Fiction, mid-July
... of their sexuality since before the previous century. I find that because I don't care about the narrator, her namelessness doesn't bother me. «Locus Online, Jul 15»
3
'The Meursault Investigation', by Kamel Daoud
Harun's mother urges on his quest; because of Musa's namelessness — Camus's fiction has priority in the popular imagination — she has ... «Financial Times, Jul 15»
4
Students explore civil rights history
Sadler said the victim's name is Dajerria Becton, and that in response to her web-wide namelessness, many women have started using ... «Natchez Democrat, Jun 15»
5
Kamel Daoud's 'The Meursault Investigation': A Postcolonial …
Algeria was thus important insomuch as the Pied-Noir had a predetermined status as Other — but the namelessness of the “Arab” proves that, ... «Flavorwire, Jun 15»
6
Inside Fight Club 2 Issue 1
The nickname of “Junior” is also quite suggestive of taking after his father- in namelessness, in explosives, and who knows what else? There is ... «moviepilot.com, May 15»
7
Overcoming space: mobility and history
... indigenous populations of America and Africa underpins what Frank B. Wilderson identifies as the “black invisibility and namelessness” at the ... «Open Democracy, May 15»
8
Four Episodes In, Everyone on Game of Thrones Is Having an …
Namelessness hurts Jon Snow too; he confesses to Sam how hard it was to turn down Stannis' offer since he's wanted to be a Stark all his life. «Racked, May 15»
9
“Woman in Gold” Depicts Harrowing History of Stolen Art
... “Woman in Gold,” alludes to the name the Klimt portrait was given in recognition of the years it lived through the war, enduring namelessness ... «Amherststudent, Apr 15»
10
This Design Professor Makes Products With No Labels On Them
... names—and then you find Owen's design objects on the other, no less modern in their purposeful namelessness. Like those Converse kicks, ... «Bloomberg, Apr 15»

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