The phenomenon may be all too common, ridethetalk, but the word, not so much.
It certainly is a word, validly constructed, and explicitly noted in some dictionaries, such as Merriam-Webster. A usage example from a TV review just a couple of days ago in a paper called the
Oregonian:
After all, while it’s cruel to think so many of these rich jerks deserve bad things happening to them, it’s understandable, as we watch them demonstrate their pampered cluelessness.
Puzzlingly, the News on the Web corpus indicates that the word is used much more often in Nigeria than in any other English-speaking country.
Cluelessness will be allowed, as a rare word.
