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n. - A lack of a special often creative or artistic aptitude

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  • But for the bright red ring itself to throw no reflection, badly-cloned or otherwise... that takes talentlessness.
  • Worse, he would be called a coward, who had invented a story to explain his fear of visiting the Magician and gaining absolute proof of his talentlessness.
  • I used a sort of fluid metric of talentlessness, persistence, and my desire to see the person Just.
  • Whichever way one looks, there is no escaping the composer once denounced by Kingsley Amis for his "overwhelming talentlessness".
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