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businesslessness en · NOUN

Etymology

From businessless + -ness.

Meanings

  1. (rare, uncountable) The quality of lacking business or businesses.
    • my own businesslessness / reading fortunes on the ceiling 1997 December 4, zxxx, “suddenly something”, in rec.arts.poems (Usenet):
    • Daily sitting meditation, / Businesslessness seem impossible, / Most often always, / Why not meditate on the breath / All the time every moment? 2006 June, Bill Menza, “Poem: Why Not Meditate All the Time?”, in The Mindfulness Bell, number 42, archived from the original on 07 Aug 2023:
    • Butter vulnerability, though than the threat of businesslessness as dictated by the invention of an environmental engineer from the Electric Boat. Div. of General Dynamics at Groton, Conn. 1971, Journal of the American Water Works Association, volume 63, page 540: