Definition of Purposelessness

1. Noun. The quality of lacking any definite purpose.

Exact synonyms: Aimlessness
Generic synonyms: Meaninglessness
Derivative terms: Aimless, Purposeless, Purposeless
Antonyms: Purposefulness

Definition of Purposelessness

1. Noun. The state of being purposeless. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Purposelessness

1. [n -ES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Purposelessness

purporting
purportless
purports
purpose
purpose-built
purpose-made
purpose statement
purposed
purposedly
purposeful
purposeful availment
purposefully
purposefulness
purposeless
purposelessly
purposelessness (current term)
purposely
purposer
purposers
purposes
purposeth
purposing
purposive
purposive approach
purposively
purposiveness
purposivenesses
purpre
purpresture
purprestures

Literary usage of Purposelessness

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Main Currents in Nineteenth, Century Literature by Georg Morris Cohen Brandes (1906)
"And purposelessness is another important item, which must on no account be overlooked. It is another designation for the genius of Romanticism. ..."

2. Thomas Hardy: An Illustration of the Philosophy of Schopenhauer by Helen Garwood (1911)
"There remains one more outcome of purposelessness to be considered, and that is the outcome of purposelessness in art. In presenting a purposeless view of ..."

3. Main Currents in Nineteenth Century Literature by Georg Morris Cohen Brandes (1906)
"VI ROMANTIC purposelessness IN Lucinde, then, as in a nutshell, are to be found all the theories which, later in the history of Romanticism, are developed ..."

4. The History of Creation, Or, the Development of the Earth and Its by Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel, Edwin Ray Lankester (1892)
"The Connection between the History of Individual and Palaeontological Development.—The Theory of purposelessness, or the Science of ..."

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