adlessness

English

Etymology

adless +‎ -ness

Noun

adlessness (uncountable)

  1. (informal, rare) Absence of advertisements.
    • 1931, “Press: Anthony's Adlessness”, in Time‎:
      Much of [Norman's Anthony's magazine Ballyhoo is] devoted to [parodies] of [advertisements].
    • 1979, The Swedish Pioneer Historical Quarterly, volume 30, page 278:
      It is as though Sandburg equated adlessness with purity in journalism and the presence of ads as moral pollutant.
    • 1989, William David Sloan, American journalism history: an annotated bibliography, page 214:
      Yet he was tied to journalistic traditions in areas other than adlessness and tried no things really new in the Day Book.
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