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- noun Absence of
direction .
Etymologies
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Examples
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It is a directionlessness intermingled with a destructive new conviction that a cornerstone of Englishness – a commitment to fairness – is being torched.
UK riots: Our wounded nation will not be healed by vengeful gestures | Will Hutton and Henry Porter 2011
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If Johnson loses the mayoralty in 2012 due to a combination of directionlessness, meanness and accusations of cronyism, his arts and culture polices will deserve their share of the blame.
Boris Johnson's cultural policies are nothing to be proud of 2010
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Humankind's most powerful impulse, to approach the divine, is being undermined by the directionlessness of today's great faiths.
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But the warm words just serve to highlight the political stupidity and moral directionlessness of Brown in the first place.
The Lumley effect 2009
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But the warm words just serve to highlight the political stupidity and moral directionlessness of Brown in the first place.
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The stunning rise in youth joblessness is a symptom of a larger national neglect, a neglect that is interrupted only by -- ironic at best, disingenuous at worst -- episodes of hand-wringing over young people's corruptibility and directionlessness.
Jeff Chang: Idle Hands: Why The Candidates Must Focus On America's Youth 2008
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Because, Andrew, directionlessness depends upon the contingencies of circumstance random mutation, time-lag, etc.
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And why is directionlessness so automatically incompatible with “the God of traditional Christianity”?
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And why is directionlessness so automatically incompatible with “the God of traditional Christianity”?
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Humankind's most powerful impulse, to approach the divine, is being undermined by the directionlessness of today's great faiths.
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