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Lustless vs Lustlessness - What's the difference?

lustless | lustlessness |

As an adjective lustless

is without sexual lust.

As a noun lustlessness is

the state or condition of being lustless; absence of lust.

lustless

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Without sexual lust.
  • * 1587 , Christopher Marlowe, Tamburlaine the Great
    • By Mahomet my kinsman's sepulchre, / And by the holy Alcoran I swear, / He shall be made a chaste and lustless eunuch...
  • * 1964 , J Z Eglinton, Paul Goodman, Greek Love
    • But then, Bergler also claims that there are no genuinely ambi-erotic individuals, only "homosexuals who may be capable of lustless mechanical sex...
  • (obsolete) Lacking vigour; weak; spiritless.
    • (Webster 1913)

    lustlessness

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • The state or condition of being lustless; absence of lust.