adlessness en · NOUN
Etymology
From adless + -ness.
Meanings
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(informal, rare, uncountable) Absence of advertisements.
Yet he was tied to journalistic traditions in areas other than adlessness and tried no things really new in the Day Book.
1989, William David Sloan, American journalism history: an annotated bibliography, page 214:It is as though Sandburg equated adlessness with purity in journalism and the presence of ads as moral pollutant.
1979, The Swedish Pioneer Historical Quarterly, volume 30, page 278:Much of [Norman's Anthony's magazine Ballyhoo is] devoted to [parodies] of [advertisements].
1931, “Press: Anthony's Adlessness”, in Time: