bootlessness

== English == === Etymology === From 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.