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Meaning of "sunlessness" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

PRONUNCIATION OF SUNLESSNESS

ˈsʌnlɪsnəs


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SUNLESSNESS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Sunlessness 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 SUNLESSNESS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of sunlessness in the English dictionary

The definition of sunlessness in the dictionary is the quality of having no sun. Other definition of sunlessness is a lack of happiness and joy.



WORDS THAT RHYME WITH SUNLESSNESS

affectlessness · agelessness · bootlessness · causelessness · changelessness · deathlessness · defenselessness · formlessness · hairlessness · healthlessness · movelessness · passionlessness · planlessness · resistlessness · sinlessness · stainlessness · stresslessness · stylelessness · voicelessness · waterlessness

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SUNLESSNESS

sunhat · sunk · sunk costs · sunk fence · sunken · sunket · sunkie · sunland · sunless · sunlessly · sunlight · sunlike · sunlit · sunlounger · sunn · Sunna · sunned · Sunni · sunnier · sunnies

WORDS THAT END LIKE SUNLESSNESS

biliousness · business · carelessness · consciousness · deliciousness · deviousness · flawlessness · helplessness · hilariousness · homelessness · hopelessness · lawlessness · nervousness · preciousness · restlessness · ridiculousness · righteousness · seriousness · statelessness · unconsciousness · viciousness

Synonyms and antonyms of sunlessness in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «sunlessness» into 25 languages

TRANSLATOR

TRANSLATION OF SUNLESSNESS

Find out the translation of sunlessness to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of sunlessness from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «sunlessness» in English.
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Translator English - Chinese

sunlessness
1,325 millions of speakers
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sunlessness
570 millions of speakers
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English

sunlessness
510 millions of speakers
hi

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sunlessness
380 millions of speakers
ar

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sunlessness
280 millions of speakers
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sunlessness
278 millions of speakers
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sunlessness
270 millions of speakers
bn

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sunlessness
260 millions of speakers
fr

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sunlessness
220 millions of speakers
ms

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Sunlessness
190 millions of speakers
de

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sunlessness
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

sunlessness
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

sunlessness
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Javanese

Sunlessness
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

sunlessness
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

sunlessness
75 millions of speakers
mr

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निर्दयपणा
75 millions of speakers
tr

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güneşsizlik
70 millions of speakers
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sunlessness
65 millions of speakers
pl

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sunlessness
50 millions of speakers
uk

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sunlessness
40 millions of speakers
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sunlessness
30 millions of speakers
el

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sunlessness
15 millions of speakers
af

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sunlessness
14 millions of speakers
sv

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sunlessness
10 millions of speakers
no

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sunlessness
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of sunlessness

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SUNLESSNESS»

Principal search tendencies and common uses of sunlessness
List of principal searches undertaken by users to access our English online dictionary and most widely used expressions with the word «sunlessness».

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

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SUNLESSNESS»

Discover the use of sunlessness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to sunlessness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Ratner's Star
Utter calmness. Readiness to concentrate.” “What's polar hysteria?” “He's able to squeak out occasional questions, it would appear. Very encouraging indeed. Sunlessness. That's your problem. Aggravated sunlessness.” “Keep believing it.
Don Delillo, 2012
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The Experimental Impulse in George Meredith's Fiction
Meredith's rendering of the confinement and "sunlessness" Clara encounters in her relation to Willoughby and his endless monologue is, again, strikingly similar to moods evoked by George Eliot and Henry James in their treatment of the ...
Richard C. Stevenson, 2004
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A Dead Language:
Diminuendo ... ... equals ... It equaledpeace. It equaled silence. It equaled soothing sunlessness, a sunlessness with warmth. ... equals NaCl ... Diminuendo ... ... plus H2O. Always diminuendo ... Even the H2O drip, drip,drip fadedaway. Equals .
Peter Rushforth, 2001
4
Ireland's Arctic Siege of 1947: The Big Freeze of 1947
Sunlessness was afflictingmany with notonly acheerless mood but depression.So ,“sunshine was rarely more welcomethan whenit made itsbrief appearance” at midday onSunday, wrote theIrish Independent, as the “glimpse of the sun took ...
Kevin C. Kearns, 2011
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The Egoist: A Comedy in Narrative
To be fixed at the mouth of a mine, and to have to descend it daily, and not to discover great opulence below ; on the contrary, to be chilled in subterranean sunlessness, without any substantial quality that she could grasp, only the mystery of ...
George Meredith, 1931
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Shadow Play: A Mystery
All around me was the sparkling sunlessness of snow-covered fields and a few houses on both sides, far away. Underneath the ice were clearly visible hundreds of brightly coloured snakes, red and green and blue, all unmoving. I continued ...
Rajorshi Chakraborti, 2010
7
The Lost City
You could get to like this kind of life, he remembered thinking, amid rain and cold and sunlessness, but only if you erased the other kind of life from your brain cells, of sunshine and street life, a sense of moving toward a bright destination.
Henry Shukman, 2009
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Alps and Sanctuaries of Piedmont and the Canton Ticino
But I should have liked to have looked down from the sun into the sunlessness, as the old Fate woman at Ronco can do when she sits in winter at her window; or again, I should like to see how things would look from this same window on a ...
Samuel Butler, 2009
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A Dweller on Two Planets: Or, the Dividing of the Way
The light above, made more brilliant by the bright-tinted rocks, and the shadows below, made more gloomy by the sombre shades of sunlessness, increased the apparent depth of the awful canons, and it seemed a long, long way up to the ...
Phylos The Thibetan, 2009
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Planet Narnia: The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C. S. ...
... sun,' 'pale winter sunlight,' a 'sunless river,' a 'sunless sky,' another morning scene in which 'the sun was shining' on wet snow, 'pale sunlight.' Then (c) complete sunlessness for nearly eighty pages while the adventurers are underground.
Michael Ward, 2008

3 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SUNLESSNESS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term sunlessness is used in the context of the following news items.
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Extra, Extra: Goodbye WORN, Toronto's New Woonerf, and Leafs …
The cold weather is on its way, and many Torontonians are likely attempting to distract themselves from the prospect of sunlessness and slush by focusing on ... «Torontoist, Sep 14»
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Battle ready: Seven-story West Main transformation begins
Among other things, that cool-to-cold season sunlessness will mean that any ice and snow accumulation on that sidewalk -- one that has never once been ... «The Hook, May 11»
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Readers rank Astrodome as Houston's favorite building
After the resulting sunlessness killed the grass, the Dome spawned AstroTurf. For a while, the stadium seemed as unstoppable. The Roman Colosseum stood ... «Houston Chronicle, Dec 08»
REFERENCE
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