Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Lack of definite or practical purpose or aim.
- noun The state or quality of being purposeless, and therefore without design or final cause. See
dysteleology .
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- noun The state of being
purposeless .
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- noun the quality of lacking any definite purpose
Etymologies
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Examples
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Inspiration in a Cup & Fresh Moab Coffee! which fills me up to a large extent and quells any feeling of purposelessness, which is always good.
Progressive Bloggers 2008
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Inspiration in a Cup & Fresh Moab Coffee! which fills me up to a large extent and quells any feeling of purposelessness, which is always good.
Progressive Bloggers 2008
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I demur, therefore, to the inference of "purposelessness" which I gather that Professor Haeckel draws from these organs.
Evolution, Old & New Or, the Theories of Buffon, Dr. Erasmus Darwin and Lamarck, as compared with that of Charles Darwin Samuel Butler 1868
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Everything in the facility is so automated that they can't stop working despite the purposelessness of the tasks.
Matt Cohen: Playing Games at Work: A Look at 5 Video Games with Corporate Settings Matt Cohen 2011
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Everything in the facility is so automated that they can't stop working despite the purposelessness of the tasks.
Matt Cohen: Playing Games at Work: A Look at 5 Video Games with Corporate Settings Matt Cohen 2011
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The results of all this, as even a fool could have predicted, were ruined families and shattered lives, a sense of purposelessness and ennui, and to top it off, some rather embarrassing infections.
Virus 2009
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Ever since his passing nine years ago, I believe she has been feeling a bit lost and possibly a sense of purposelessness and some unhappiness.
Dennis Merritt Jones: How to Make Yourself a Better Person, and the World a Better Place Dennis Merritt Jones 2011
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Yet there remains a vague purpose to his purposelessness, a low-simmering desire to recognize himself in his surroundings: "I wanted to find the line that connected me to my own part in these stories."
Roaming on Urban Streets Sam Sacks 2011
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Ever since his passing nine years ago, I believe she has been feeling a bit lost and possibly a sense of purposelessness and some unhappiness.
Dennis Merritt Jones: How to Make Yourself a Better Person, and the World a Better Place Dennis Merritt Jones 2011
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Ever since his passing nine years ago, I believe she has been feeling a bit lost and possibly a sense of purposelessness and some unhappiness.
Dennis Merritt Jones: How to Make Yourself a Better Person, and the World a Better Place Dennis Merritt Jones 2011
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