groundlessness
- noun
- /ˈɡraʊndləsnəs/
:
inexistencia
- Her belief in the groundlessness of the accusations against her was unwavering.
We should recognize groundlessness and contingency.
- We should recognize groundlessness and contingency.
Examples
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The groundlessness of his arguments made it difficult for anyone to take him seriously.
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Ultimately, I argue that Heidegger recognizes, with Derrida and others, the ultimate "groundlessness" of ethics.
Blog text (2) -
We should recognize groundlessness and contingency.
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And if that is what our culture's like, if that's the best that can be offered, there's kind of a groundlessness that happens.
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But this belittlement has a cure, unlike our mortality, our groundlessness, and our insatiability.
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Nonetheless, we must continually reopen ourselves to Being if we are to avoid the groundlessness and rootlessness of late modern nihilism.
Academic text (1995) -
The ferry's rope creates a connection, dissolves the groundlessness, and points, straight and unerring, toward the opposite bank, to the white mansion.
Fiction book (2000) -
Several of the Buddha's followers are said to have suffered heart attacks and died when they first heard its assertion of the basic groundlessness of our existence; hence the title of this book.
Blog text (3) -
I stepped over and clutched her to me and made the manner of noises meant to confirm the groundlessness of her fears, which, I'm sorry to say, were largely fueled by repeating breakfast sausage.
Fiction book (2001) -
Even before perestroika, before our attempts during the past five years to revive Soviet industrial and social structures with the help of borrowed economic mechanisms that we spied on the other side of the fence, we could have predicted the groundlessness of these hopes to reconcile the irreconcilable.
Academic text (1991)
Synonyms
1
8.6
A wrong idea or reason that is not logical
The state of having no proof or good reason
A lack of firm evidence or real connection that makes something hard to believe
The state of something that cannot be defended or shown to be right
Antonyms
How Justified
156
4.0
189
2.5
9
3.7
296
4.0
∞
1.6
Surface Forms
Morphology
groundlessness = groundless (transparent) = ground + less + ness
Formed by adding the noun-forming suffix '-ness' to the adjective 'groundless', creating a clear nominalization.
Etymology
Groundlessness is made from ground meaning the 'base' or 'earth', -less meaning 'without', and -ness which makes it a noun. So groundlessness is the state of being 'without a base', like an idea with no ground to stand on, and that is why it means lacking a real reason or support.