chinlessness

English

Etymology

chinless +‎ -ness

Noun

chinlessness (uncountable)

1. The quality of being chinless.
   • 1985, Courtlandt Canby, Nancy E. Gross, The World of history, page 65:

     Everyone has read of his beetling brows, his prominent teeth, his chinlessness, his hairiness, and has seen them reproduced in pictures, even in bronze busts.

   • 1987, Charles East, The New Writers of the South: A Fiction Anthology, →ISBN, page 176:

     On the Tuesday after Miss Pettigrew's funderal Mr. Conrad Rackley returned to Neely in a rented truck thecab of which he shared with a pair of Masseys who we did not know for Masseys right off but who we recognized as relations on account of a common chinlessness, which is apparently the predominant Massey trait in the West Virginia end of Kentucky.

   • 2000, Meredith A. Powers, The Heroine in Western Literature, →ISBN:

     Patriarchy deliberately inculcates rivalry between women; Eva speaks of this in her description of the mean-spirited rivalries between girls in the cotillion competition which her chinlessness had locked her out of.