different between toneless vs toteless

English

tone +? -less

toneless (comparative more toneless, superlative most toneless)

Lacking tone or expression.
- 1928, Radclyffe Hall, The Well of Loneliness, Garden City, NY: Blue Ribbon Books, Book 1, Chapter 7, Section 2, p. 71^[1]
  And sure enough she had settled down at once, so that in less than two months it seemed to Stephen that Miss Puddleton must always have been at Morton, must always have been sitting at the large walnut table, must always have been saying in that dry, toneless voice with the Oxford accent: ‘You’ve forgotten something, Stephen,’ […]
- 1941, Emily Carr, Klee Wyck, Chapter 4,^[2]
  The Cumshewa totem poles were dark and colourless, the wood toneless from pouring rain.
Lacking vitality; listless.
(linguistics) Lacking tone or pitch, have the neutral tone.

From tote +? -less.

toteless (not comparable)

(rare) Without a tote or totes (in any sense).
- 2001 January 3, “Peter” (username), “Re: Old Planes?”, in rec.woodworking, Usenet,
  The #22 and #24 (toteless) smoothing planes are nice, as are the #35 and #36 (toted) smoothing planes. These are readily obtainable.
- 2004 February 11, “Mike in Idaho” (username), “Knight-Toolworks plane question”, in rec.woodworking, Usenet,
  Steve mentioned that most of his scrub orders are toteless (traditional I guess you'd say). In purchasing the Jack I had always assumed I'd get it with the tote because I do like the additional control it gives me with the scrub when I'm planing around grain that's changing direction (knots and such) to avoid massive tearout you can get with a scrub.

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