reachlessness
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]reachlessness (uncountable)
- The property of being reachless
- 1809, Ezelkiel Hopkins, Josiah Pratt, The works of Ezekiel Hopkins - Volume 1:
- Some are Negligently Profane, and absent themselves from the ordinances of Jesus Christ, and the solemn worship of God, upon mere sloth and reachlessness.
- 1903, The Four-track News - Volume 5, Issues 4-5:
- He wants to see the things that are on the other side of the world — to reach the stars, as we all do, and he realizes their reachlessness, and storms and rages in his great way, as we often do in our feeble one.