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Toneless vs Tonelessness - What's the difference?

toneless | tonelessness |

As an adjective toneless

is lacking tone or expression.

As a noun tonelessness is

the state or condition of being toneless.

toneless

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • lacking tone or expression
  • lacking vitality; listless
  • lacking tone or pitch, have the neutral tone

    • Derived terms

    * tonelessly

    tonelessness

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • The state or condition of being toneless.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2007, date=February 11, author=Stephen Metcalf, title=Informal Menace, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=So much menace, so much studied tonelessness and unmusicality — and on the part of so young a virtuoso — is disturbing, to say the least, and it comes a relief when he lays it aside. }}