loveless
adjective
without any love.
lovelessness
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a word derived from
loveless.
Example Sentences
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Clara is developmentally disabled due to a childhood accident; Margaret’s efforts to keep her safe gradually give way to a fuller understanding of her daughter’s awakening, and the lovelessness of her own marriage.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 15, 2026
"This album is just about love and loving each other in a world that feels lovelessness right now."
From Barron's ● Feb. 28, 2026
He once described Sobyanin’s Moscow as being “captured by corruption, stupidity, and lovelessness and lack of attention to its residents and problems.”
From Washington Post ● Sep. 7, 2018
This is a different #MeToo, a compulsive drive to find love, or at least to stop the pain of lovelessness.
From New York Times ● Jun. 12, 2018
They were only trying to save me from humiliation, lovelessness, even death.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
