a. [f. STRESS sb. + -LESS.] Having no stress, unstressed. Hence Stresslessness.
1885. Encycl. Brit., XVIII. 788/2. In originally stressless syllables long vowels were shortened and short vowels dropped.
1892. Fennell, Stanford Dict., Introd. p. ix. Nor is it implied that all syllables marked as unaccented have precisely the same stresslessness.
