Flowerlessness

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The absence of flowers. uncountable

    "And, to this bare and innutritious place have I, after years of flowerlessness, removed my great old bush of Chimonanthus fragrans from the Terrace Wall."

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"And, to this bare and innutritious place have I, after years of flowerlessness, removed my great old bush of Chimonanthus fragrans from the Terrace Wall."

Etymology

From flowerless + -ness.

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