firelessness
English
Etymology
fireless + -ness
Noun
firelessness (uncountable)
- The absence of fire.
- 2010, Richard Wrangham, Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human, page 27:
- When anthropologist James Frazer examined reports of prehistoric firelessness, he found them equally full of fantasy, such as fire being brought by a cockatoo or being tamed after it was discovered in a woman's genitals.
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