tenseless

tenseless

English

Etymology

    From tense + -less.

    Adjective

    tenseless (not comparable)

    1. Lacking grammatical tense
      • 2008 August 27, Kevin Dewan, “Review of Heather Dyke, Metaphysics and the Representational Fallacy”, in Erkenntnis, volume 69, number 2, →DOI:
        Those who endorse the A-theory of time, for example, often attempt to show that tense is ineliminable, i. e., it is impossible to adequately paraphrase tensed sentences into tenseless ones.

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