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airlessness

n. 1 The state or condition of being poorly ventilated; lacking good air circulation, having stale air. 2 The state or quality of a (relative) vacuum.

Usage examples of "airlessness".

The robots started off, the regular thudding of their footsteps silent in the airlessness, for the nonmetallic fabric of the insosuits did not transmit sound.

The distance would be inconvenient, but they had brought along a pair of walkers adapted to airlessness and low gravity.

Yet with violin and tympani Stravinsky had managed to communicate in that tango the same exhaustion, the same airlessness one saw in the slicked-down youths who were trying to imitate Vernon Castle, and in their mistresses, who simply did not care.

By being alive here, by outfacing the eternal enemies—heat, cold, and airlessness, distance, acceleration, and the ever-present missiles of space itself, and even other men—he kept humanity alive.