Firelessness

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The absence of fire. uncountable

    "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."

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"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."

Etymology

From fireless + -ness.

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