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facelessness

  • a word derived from faceless.
    faceless
    adjective
    without a face.

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In Todd’s facelessness, he’s a stand-in for whatever you want: absentee parents, a struggling partner or child or friend.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2025

"She does not impress us as an abstraction, an idea, or ideal of the female and the fecund; rather one feels in spite of facelessness and gross exaggeration, that this is actual woman."

From Washington Post ● Mar. 3, 2016

Both forms ultimately drive celebrity, a very different kind of facelessness then, to Sia’s whose every quasi-anonymous TV appearance has been extraordinary.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 7, 2014

As such, John Smith’s restricted use in the real world may be in the result in part of parents’ wish to avoid this implication of facelessness.

From Slate ● Nov. 4, 2013

"How long must they flaunt their facelessness in faceless eyes?"

From Lilith, a romance by George MacDonald