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AIMLESSNESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does aimlessness mean?
• AIMLESSNESS (noun)
The noun AIMLESSNESS has 1 sense:
1. the quality of lacking any definite purpose
Familiarity information: AIMLESSNESS 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 ("aimlessness" is a kind of...):
meaninglessness (the quality of having no value or significance)
Derivation:
aimless (continually changing especially as from one abode or occupation to another)
purposeless (serving no useful purpose; having no excuse for being)
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