tenseless en · ADJ
Etymology
Etymology tree English tense Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁- Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der. Proto-Germanic *leusaną Proto-Germanic *lausaz Proto-Germanic *-lausaz Proto-West Germanic *-laus Old English -lēas Middle English -les English -less English tenseless From tense + -less.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Lacking grammatical tense
Those who endorse the A-theory of time, for example, often attempt to show that tense is ineliminable, i. e., it is impossible to adequately paraphrase tensed sentences into tenseless ones.
2008 August 27, Kevin Dewan, “Review of Heather Dyke, Metaphysics and the Representational Fallacy”, in Erkenntnis, volume 69, number 2, →DOI: