Answerlessness

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Absence of an answer. uncountable

    "Lia was taken aback by the question, thrown by the plain answerlessness of it."

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"Lia was taken aback by the question, thrown by the plain answerlessness of it."

Etymology

From answerless + -ness.

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