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Dreadness vs Dreadless - What's the difference?

dreadness | dreadless |

As a noun dreadness

is quality of being dread.

As an adjective dreadless is

feeling no dread or fear; unafraid.

dreadness

English

Noun

(-)
  • Quality of being dread.

    • dreadless

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Feeling no dread or fear; unafraid.
  • *1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , I.vi:
  • *:So doubly is distrest twixt ioy and cares / The dreadlesse courage of this Elfin knight, / Hauing escapt so sad ensamples in his sight.
  • *, I.40:
  • *:And to make shew of his dreadlesse magnanimitie, having caused a pan of burning coales to be brought, he saw and suffred his right arme.
  • (obsolete) Exempt from danger which causes dread; secure.
  • *Spenser
  • *:Safe in his dreadless den.