bootlessness

English

Etymology

bootless +‎ -ness; see boot (“profit”).

Noun

bootlessness (uncountable)

(archaic) The quality of being unavailing or unprofitable.
The state of being bootless (without boots)

References

“bootless”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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