futurelessness en · NOUN
Etymology
Etymology tree English futureless Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English futurelessness From futureless + -ness.
Meanings
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(uncountable) Lack of a future; the state of being futureless.
I want to tell them that I envy their upbringings that were so clean, so free of futurelessness.
1991, Douglas Coupland, “Eat Your Parents”, in Generation X, New York: St. Martin's Press, →OCLC, page 86: