Adjective : a certain person who shall be nameless. ,a nameless source of information. ,a nameless charm. ,a nameless crime. ,a nameless poet; nameless defenders of the country. From Dictionary.com.
His namelessness is explained purrfectly: cats know who they are, so they don't need names, unlike easily confused and self-conscious humans. From Wordnik.com. [slayground: Favorite Fictional Felines] Reference
How much a luxury it is to sink into namelessness. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-05-01] Reference
It bothered Minyard, “this kind of disregard,” the namelessness of it all. From Wordnik.com. [The Lampshade] Reference
The namelessness of James's narrator seems fitting in a tale of genteel deceit. From Wordnik.com. [Ten of the best nameless protagonists in literature] Reference
Not only are these entities nameless and faceless, their namelessness and facelessness make them that much more menacing. From Wordnik.com. [The Big and Profound Screen | PopPolitics.com] Reference
Fame, like electricity, is thus positive and negative; and if a writer must be Somebody to make himself of permanent interest to the world at large, he must not less be Nobody -- like Junius -- to have his namelessness embalmed by Mons. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 20, June, 1859] Reference
Let no one fancy I confess any unreality when I confess the namelessness. From Wordnik.com. [Utopia of Usurers and Other Essays] Reference
Such namelessness makes Putnam a relative rarity in a city of fierce neighbourhood loyalties. From Wordnik.com. [Thestar.com - Home Page] Reference
Your namelessness, your future as an overcooked blob on the surface of some forsaken planet. From Wordnik.com. [BlogHer] Reference
There is in all visible things an invisible fecundity, a dimmed light, a meek namelessness, and a hidden wholeness. From Wordnik.com. [Archives of General Psychiatry current issue] Reference
In spite of its namelessness and desertion, then, something else lurks in the silent anonymity of this unnamed "place.". From Wordnik.com. [artforum.com] Reference
And poor Emily, with the conscious ignorance of eighteen, believed, and was the sort of gentle creature who could easily be daunted by the terror that her generous impulses to share the shame and namelessness were unfeminine and wrong. From Wordnik.com. [Lady Hester, or, Ursula's Narrative] Reference
Here mournfully went by a child who had never had a childhood or known a parent, inseparable from a youth with a bitter sense of his namelessness, coupled to a man the enforced business of whose best years had been distasteful and oppressive, linked to an ungrateful friend, dragging after him a woman once beloved. From Wordnik.com. [Mugby Junction] Reference
Here, mournfully went by, a child who had never had a childhood or known a parent, inseparable from a youth with a bitter sense of his namelessness, coupled to a man the enforced business of whose best years had been distasteful and oppressive, linked to an ungrateful friend, dragging after him a woman once beloved. From Wordnik.com. [Mugby Junction] Reference
The care with which she foresaw his wants, the ingenuity with which she met them, the dignity and simplicity with which she carried herself through incidents that to a less delicate tact must have been difficult, would have excited his admiration in any case, even if the namelessness which helped to make her an impersonal element in the episode had not stirred his imagination. From Wordnik.com. [The Wild Olive] Reference
While she is on her twenty-fourth false name -- dolly, baby, cutie, cherry tart, whatever all the pornographers are cooking up this week as a marketing device -- her namelessness says to the man, she's nobody real, I don't have to deal with her, she doesn't have a last name at all, I don't have to remember who she is, she's not somebody specific to me, she's a generic embodiment of woman. From Wordnik.com. [Prostitution and Male Supremacy] Reference
Perhaps my reader may be sufficiently interested in the person, who, having once begun to tell his story, may possibly have allowed his feelings, in concert with the comfortable confidence afforded by the mask of namelessness, to run away with his pen, and so have babbled of himself more than he ought -- may be sufficiently interested, I say, in my mental condition, to cast a speculative thought upon the state of my mind, during my illness, with regard to Miss Oldcastle and the stranger who was her mother's guest at the Hall. From Wordnik.com. [Annals of a Quiet Neighbourhood] Reference
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