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Stylelessness vs Styleless - What's the difference?

stylelessness | styleless | Derived terms |

Styleless is a derived term of stylelessness.



As a noun stylelessness

is absence of style.

As an adjective styleless is

lacking good style or any style at all.

stylelessness

English

Noun

(-)
  • Absence of style.
  • * 2000 , Darden Asbury Pyron, Liberace: an American boy?
    • He was open to the way counterculture stylelessness could become style in itself.

    styleless

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Lacking good style or any style at all.
  • * 1921 , Edward Livermore Burlingame, Robert Bridges, Alfred Dashiell, Harlan Logan, Scribner's Magazine
    • It is not enough to say that style is a characteristic mode of expression, for then it would be almost impossible to speak of anything as styleless .
  • * 1992 , Greg Johnson, A Friendly Deceit
    • He was too thin, so that the styleless clothes hung poorly, and something in his coloring made her think that he ate the wrong foods.
  • (botany) Lacking a style (stalk structure).
  • * 1990 , Nihon Shokubutsu Gakkai, The Botanical Magazine, Tokyo
    • Short-styled and styleless flowers were sometimes mixed in these individuals.

    Derived terms

    * stylelessly * stylelessness