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From Higgs + -less; named after British physicist Peter Higgs, who proposed the Higgs mechanism, which would be missing under this adjective.
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higgsless
Today it means: Describing any system in which the Higgs boson/Higgs field/Higgs mechanism is not involved, or is presumed not to exist. Full definition →