different between traceless vs residueless

English

Etymology

trace +? -less

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?t?e?sl?s/, /?t??e?sl?s/

Adjective

traceless (comparative more traceless, superlative most traceless)

1. That has no traces
2. That cannot be traced; untraceable

Translations

Anagrams

• scelerats

English

Etymology

residue +? -less

Adjective

residueless (comparative more residueless, superlative most residueless)

1. Leaving no residue or lasting mark.
   • 1908, Paul Dahlke, Buddhist Essays, page 309-310:

     To his pointed question: "Where does the residueless, total annihilation of the four elements take place?" he received the following answer. "Go, O monk, and put your question to the Exalted One. As the Exalted One shall explain it, so believe."

   • 1977, Lászlo Jakucs, Morphogenetics of Karst Regions: Variants of Karst Evolution, page 78:

     In general, any monomineralic rock deposited from aqueous solution is capable of total, residueless dissolution in water.

   • 2008, Alessandro Ferrara, The Force of the Example: Explorations in the Paradigm of Judgment, chapter 1, page 18:

     If we assume that, in a philosophical context where the human subject is supposed to be intersubjectively constituted by web of relations that necessarily have to have a culturally local anchoring, principles and laws cannot do the old trick of allowing the residueless subsumption of all particulars, as if culture and social relations of recognition were just a colorful addition to a subject whose making is best accounted for in naturalistic or transcendental terms, […]

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:residueless.

Synonyms

• traceless