placeless
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- adjective
- /ˈpleɪs.ləs/
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sin lugar
- The agricultural follies of these sodbusters can, according to Worster, be ascribed to "the way of life of the Okies," a placeless existence defined by "tenancy, the moving itch, violence toward nature as well."
Examples
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It often has the feel of an echo chamber; it is placeless; and it thrives on instant responses to the latest events.
Academic text (2002) -
As personal geographies are necessarily adjusting to and promoting modern and postmodern lifeworlds, they are increasingly assuming their meaning from the ties between a placeless self and surroundings.
Academic text (1995) -
Some observers would call it placeless.
Academic text (1993) -
The placeless Western human is, in the most profound sense, a "natural alien."
Academic text (1998) -
Not all uses of architectural metaphors are so placeless.
Academic text (1997) -
In many ways, the Nhambiquaras captured on film were timeless and placeless.
Academic text (2003) -
We Buckeyes have always known that ours is one of those placeless places, the ones that aren't labeled on national weather maps because people don't go there unless they have to.
Academic text (2001) -
By seeming to be both everywhere and inevitable, these more proximate modern vernaculars inhabit another vague, placeless domain outside history.
Academic text (1998) -
One feature that is surely innovative is that Disneyland takes existing features and uses them within a site that, though permanent, is nevertheless placeless (in that it studiously ignores its own locality in favor of a three-dimensional re-creation of an imaginary world).
Academic text (1990) -
The new mall is so generic and placeless that it could be anywhere in the world.
Synonyms
Not limited to one part of the body
Not from the local area or community
Antonyms
How Local
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word placeless comes from place + -less, where -less means 'without', as in homeless. So placeless literally means 'without a place' and describes somewhere that could be anywhere, with no clear local character.