One way to hold this word: you look at where a face should be, and there is nothing to look at. The shape of a person is still in front of you, so the absence is loud. From that one picture everything else follows, because a face is what lets you tell one person from another and read what they mean. Take the face away and you get , and you get a conversation with the signals missing.
From the word’s history
The source's etymology tree shows the word as face plus the suffix -less, with face going back through Middle English to Latin faciēs, and -less from Old English -lēas. So the literal reading, having no face, is simply the parts read out.
來源的詞源樹顯示這個字是 face 加上字尾 -less。face 經由中古英文上溯到拉丁文 faciēs，-less 來自古英文 -lēas。所以「沒有臉的」這個字面義，其實就是把兩個零件直接唸出來。
Wiktionary entry for faceless (packet field etymology_text: etymology tree listing Middle English face, Latin faciēs, Old English -lēas).
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