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Placeless vs Laceless - What's the difference?

placeless | laceless |

As adjectives the difference between placeless and laceless

is that placeless is lacking a proper place while laceless is without laces.

placeless

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Lacking a proper place.
    • a placeless person
  • * 1851 , Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
    • I own thy speechless, placeless power; but to the last gasp of my earthquake life will dispute its unconditional, unintegral mastery in me.
  • Lacking places for people, things, etc.; lacking a geographic orientation.
    • a placeless society

    Derived terms

    *placelessly *placelessness

    laceless

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Without laces.
  • * 1856 : (Gustave Flaubert), (Madame Bovary), Part III Chapter XI, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling
  • *:He suffered, poor man, at seeing her so badly dressed, with laceless boots, and the arm-holes of her pinafore torn down to the hips; for the charwoman took no care of her.