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PURPOSELESSNESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does purposelessness mean?
• PURPOSELESSNESS (noun)
The noun PURPOSELESSNESS has 1 sense:
1. the quality of lacking any definite purpose
Familiarity information: PURPOSELESSNESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The quality of lacking any definite purpose
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
aimlessness; purposelessness
Hypernyms ("purposelessness" is a kind of...):
meaninglessness (the quality of having no value or significance)
Antonym:
purposefulness (the quality of having a definite purpose)
Derivation:
purposeless (not evidencing any purpose or goal)
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