Meaning of overtakelessness | Babel Free
Definitions
The quality of being overtakeless (impossible to overtake or surpass).
poetic, rare, uncountable
Examples
“The overtakelessness of those / Who have accomplished Death, / Majestic is to me beyond / The majesties of Earth.”
“But more often than not she trusts that rare sensitivity of hers to take her slimly down, letting it intuitively choose her way and hunch her toward encounters. And it is only in those moments of overtakelessness, after she has gone through a world of as ifs, that we rest with her at the ends of her poems.”
CEFR level
C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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