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imageless

adj

Etymology

From image + -less.

  1. derived from *h₂eym-✻
  2. derived from imāgō
  3. derived from image
  4. inherited from ymage
  5. suffixed as imageless — “image + less”

Definitions

  1. Lacking an image.

    • Other dream-fears, or strong dream-impressions, may be almost imageless. There may be a great terror, for example, of a purely geometric figure—a figure from pure geometry, or an example of pure mathematics.
    • In this diptych, a grid of 15 blue-and-black electric-chair images occupies the left panel, while the right panel is imageless, filled with the same shade of blue used in the left.

  2. Unimaginable.

    • Blessings that are imageless to all mortal fancyings, these shall be thine for this.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for imageless. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA