What is "lessness"

n. (context philosophy English) The state or condition of being less.

Lessness or Lesnes may refer to:

• Lessness Heath, a district in the London Borough of Bexley
  • Little and Lesnes Hundred, an ancient land division in Kent, England; referred to as Lessness in some records
  • Lesnes Abbey, a ruined abbey, in Abbey Wood, southeast London, England.
  • Lesnes Abbey Woods, an area of ancient woodland in southeast London, England located near, and named after, the ruined Lesnes Abbey
• Lessness (short story), a 1969 short story by Samuel Beckett
• lessness a word or suffix meaning: the condition of being less or absent of something.

"Lessness" is a short story by Samuel Beckett originally written in French as "Sans" in 1969, and later translated into English by the author. It was partly inspired by John Cage and the experimental music of the 1960s. The story was included in a book of short stories under the title Friendship launched in 1990 to coincide with the fourth anniversary of the kidnapping in Beirut of the British television journalist John McCarthy.