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🌫️ Lack of basis ⚡ No earth connection
ungroundedness

ungroundedness

9.8
A lack of firm evidence or real connection that makes something hard to believe
  • noun
  • /ʌnˈɡraʊndədnəs/
translation icon : falta de fundamento
  • Her constant state of ungroundedness made it difficult to form lasting relationships.

First, New Atheism either creates or describes this vacuum of of, you know, spiritual ungroundedness.

Examples

  • One reaction to this loneliness is the "howl of existentialism," which confuses the spiritual aridity that haunts modern life with the ungroundedness of things simply.

    Academic text (1998)

  • The dizziness that many of you are feeling, the ungroundedness, is part and parcel of these accelerated energies.

    Blog text (31)

  • Many people struggle with feelings of ungroundedness when they can't find a stable job.

  • In moments of deep ungroundedness, he often turned to meditation to regain his sense of reality.

Synonyms

groundlessness
vsungroundedness
8.7

Lack of a good reason or evidence

stresses a missing connection to reality rather than mere substance

Antonyms

connectedness
8 4.8

How people and things are joined and relate to each other

groundedness
1 5.9

A calm, steady mind that stays connected to real life

How Well Founded

soundness
1 4.6
justification
156 4.0
ungroundedness
9.8

Surface Forms

ungroundedness singular
ungroundednesses plural

Morphology

ungroundedness = ungrounded (transparent) = un + ground + ed + ness

The noun is a regular nominalization of the adjective 'ungrounded' with -ness; the meaning is directly the state of being ungrounded.

Etymology

Ungroundedness is built from un- 'not', ground 'basis' or 'earth', and -ness 'state'. So, ungroundedness means the state of 'not having a firm basis', which helps explain why we use it for ideas or claims that seem not connected to reality.