firelessness en · NOUN
Etymology
From fireless + -ness.
Meanings
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(uncountable) The absence of fire.
When anthropologist James Frazer examined reports of prehistoric firelessness, he found them equally full of fantasy, such as fire being brought by a cockatoo or being tamed after it was discovered in a woman's genitals.
2010, Richard Wrangham, Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human, page 27: