Oarlessness

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Absence of oars. uncountable

    "Only dark birds know who let it rot over itself, mirror its oarlessness and the one thin seam that suddenly like a mouth opened to allow everything oceanic in."

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"Only dark birds know who let it rot over itself, mirror its oarlessness and the one thin seam that suddenly like a mouth opened to allow everything oceanic in."

Etymology

From oarless + -ness.

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