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Authoress vs Authorless - What's the difference?

authoress | authorless |

As a noun authoress

is a female author.

As an adjective authorless is

without an author.

authoress

English

Noun

(es)
  • (dated, derogatory) A female author.
  • * {{quote-magazine
    • , year = 1765 , month = January , title = A further Account of the celebrated German Poete?s , magazine = The Gentleman's Magazine , page = 5 , pageurl = http://books.google.com/books?id=5nZIAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA5 , passage = This ob?ervation is verified in our authore?s , who, without de?ign, without art, and without in?truction is arrived at a wonderful perfection in the art of poetry, and may be placed among?t poets of the fir?t cla?s. }}

    Synonyms

    * authouress

    Hypernyms

    * author

    Anagrams

    * *

    authorless

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Without an author.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2007, date=August 28, author=Celia Mcgee, title=Famous Friends on Tour for a Halberstam Book, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=An authorless national author tour “doesn’t seem to me to have been done before,” said Constance Sayre, a principal in the Manhattan publishing consulting firm Market Partners International. }}

    Derived terms

    * authorlessness