EGAVE

toothlessness

About 0.01 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun The state or condition of being toothless; lack of teeth.
  2. noun The state of being weak, of having no capability of enforcing something.
    She denounced the treaty's toothlessness in combatting climate change.

Similar words

anodontia edentulism adontia hypodontia healthlessness witlessness taillessness tonelessness mouthlessness featherlessness

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