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Backless vs Backness - What's the difference?

backless | backness |

As an adjective backless

is having no back, said of things that typically have backs, such as chairs or dresses.

As a noun backness is

quality of being a back vowel.

backless

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • having no back, said of things that typically have backs, such as chairs or dresses
    • a backless surgical gown
  • * 1885, George Moore, A Mummer's Wife
    • The apartment was almost dismantled; chairs lay backless about the floor amid china shepherdesses and toreadors; pictures were thrown over the sofa,...
  • (of a person) having an uncovered back, having a back that shows skin

    • backness

    English

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (phonetics) Quality of being a back vowel.
    • Andrew Spencer (1996), Phonology: theory and description , p. 25 :
  • :: ''The most important aspects of vowel quality are tongue height, frontness/backness and lip rounding.

    • Antonyms

    * frontness