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English
Etymology
lack + love
Adjective
lack-love (comparative more lack-love, superlative most lack-love)
- Uncaring; indifferent to love; loveless.
1917, Arthur Shearly Cripps, “The End of the Rains”, in Lake and War, page 17:And I in exile's lack-love loneliness / Must sigh for joy if yet I may not sing—
1988, Karl J. Nice, Science and other ways of knowing:The effects upon the development of personality and behavior of a lack-love infancy appear to have still further repercussions.
Noun
lack-love (plural lack-loves)
- (obsolete) A heartless person; someone who is uncaring and indifferent to love.