gaumlessness

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A form of gormlessness — The quality or state of being gormless.

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Meanings

noungaumlessness (uncountable)
  1. alternativerareuncountableAlternative spelling of gormlessness.

    I can vouch for the truth of every word that "Jack Faust" wrote and for the gaumlessness with which he set each down.

    1972, Paul Theroux, Sinning with Annie, and other stories, page 7
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    Rabelais's vision is too fundamentally comic for him not to see that a certain kind of humility is not far from gaumlessness.

    1992, Michael Andrew Screech, “The Meaning of Thaumaste”, in Some Renaissance Studies: Selected Articles 1951-1991, →ISBN

Origin

From gaumless + -ness.

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APA

gaumlessness. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/gaumlessness

MLA

“gaumlessness.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/gaumlessness. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “gaumlessness,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/gaumlessness.

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