adlessness

adlessness

English

Etymology

adless +‎ -ness

Noun

adlessness (uncountable)

1. (informal, rare) Absence of advertisements.
   • 1979, The Swedish Pioneer Historical Quarterly (volume 30, page 278)

     It is as though Sandburg equated adlessness with purity in journalism and the presence of ads as moral pollutant.

   • 1989, William David Sloan, American journalism history: an annotated bibliography (page 214)

     Yet he was tied to journalistic traditions in areas other than adlessness and tried no things really new in the Day Book.