rare. [f. LESS a. + -NESS.] The quality or condition of being less; inferiority.
1635. Gill, Sacr. Philos., 59. Otherwise there should bee a greaternesse in being, and a lessenesse in working.
1889. Moule, Secr. Prayer, v. (1890), 84. Unspeakable lessness, dependence and obligation.
