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spaceless

American  
[speys-lis] / ˈspeɪs lɪs /

adjective

  1. having no limits or dimensions in space; limitless; unbounded.

  2. occupying no space.


spaceless British  
/ ˈspeɪslɪs /

adjective

  1. having no limits in space; infinite or boundless

  2. occupying no space

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of spaceless

First recorded in 1600–10; space + -less

Example Sentences

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I would vote to remove the ban and allow us to use or continue to use the little, free, almost spaceless plastic bags.

From New York Times Sep. 26, 2016

Pass Through Mount Utsu, with its flattened, stylized mountain, green hills and brilliant red ivy tendrils hung against a spaceless ground of gold leaf, comes from a 10th century travel diary, the Tale of Ise.

From Time Magazine Archive

Robert Hutchins, hold that "the supreme end of education is the possession of everlasting, timeless and spaceless principles of reality, truth, and value."

From Time Magazine Archive

No man desires to see that light which illumines the spaceless soul until pain and sorrow and despair have driven him away from the life of ordinary humanity.

From Light On The Path and Through the Gates of Gold by Collins, Mabel

Without figures we cannot think; yet the timeless and spaceless world can ill be figured after the likeness of things limited by time and space.

From The Faith of the Millions (2nd series) by Tyrrell, George

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