firelessness

English

Etymology

From fireless +‎ -ness.

Noun

firelessness (uncountable)

1. The absence of fire.
   • 2010, Richard Wrangham, Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human, page 27:

     When anthropologist James Frazer examined reports of prehistoric firelessness, he found them equally full of fantasy, such as fire being brought by a cockatoo or being tamed after it was discovered in a woman's genitals.