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affectionlessness

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Etymology

From affectionless + -ness.

Noun

affectionlessness (uncountable)

  1. The quality, state, or condition of being affectionless.
    • 2003, John Bossy, Disputes and Settlements: Law and Human Relations in the West:
      As was suggested at an earlier point, the most obvious use to which the historian might put the undoubted rise in suits at law in Tudor and Stuart England is as evidence of the general affectionlessness of human relationships at that time.

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