airless
adjective
lacking air.
airlessness
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a word derived from
airless.
Example Sentences
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The eerie airlessness of the dollhouse-like settings and the porcelain shine on the puppets are memorably unsettling.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 25, 2022
Sloppy enunciation, glottal mayhem, off-kilter expressiveness and a general airlessness have killed some books read by the very person who created them.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 5, 2019
Other critics have held that Joyce was deadly serious in this autobiographical fiction, and that the airlessness of the style is an ineradicable artistic misjudgment.
From New York Times ● May 14, 2019
It was hard not to feel depressed by our room, which had the corporate airlessness of such places, comfort sterilized of any human touch.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 19, 2018
The robots started off, the regular thudding of their footsteps silent in the airlessness, for the nonmetallic fabric of the insosuits did not transmit sound.
From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov
