Captureless

adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    That captures or captured nothing.

    "Poetry's captureless incipience is unavailable to such brutal measures which, rather than participating in the subtleties of the poem, slice them up according to the dominant deceits of public discourse."

  2. 2
    (of a lambda function) That has an empty capture list. broadly

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"Poetry's captureless incipience is unavailable to such brutal measures which, rather than participating in the subtleties of the poem, slice them up according to the dominant deceits of public discourse."

Etymology

From capture + -less.

Related phrases

lambda function

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