aimlessness
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7.0
- noun
- /ˈeɪmləsnəs/
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falta de propósito
- The aimlessness of tourism is starting to depress her; all she does is make plans to get to one place and then leave for the next.
Examples
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They agreed that without goals and a program of study, the final result would be aimlessness resulting in a hodgepodge of activities rather than learning.
Academic text (1992) -
It leads to the condition of anomie, which may be defined as loss of perspective, rootlessness, aimlessness, and cultural deprivation.
Academic text (1996) -
There seems to be an aimlessness in American higher education.
Academic text (1990) -
Your friend, Marty, is living a life of complete aimlessness.
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We misadventurers are not alone, however, and we come by our aimlessness honestly.
Academic text (1999) -
There is an undercurrent of discontent, an aimlessness, and an absence of self-discipline.
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It is that instant when you close your eyes against those special horrors that you cannot make yourself see and open them to find that you are in the dusk of aimlessness and alienation.
Fiction book (2002) -
Your friend, Marty, is living a life of complete aimlessness.
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After her B.A. in Fine Arts, a sense of aimlessness had overtaken her.
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There seems to be an aimlessness in American higher education.
Synonyms
58
5.3
A feeling that life has no meaning
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7.6
A feeling that what you do has no purpose or value
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6.2
A state when something has no purpose or use
2
7.0
A state of having no meaning or purpose
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8.7
The feeling of having no clear goal or direction
1
7.5
A feeling of not knowing what to do next
A feeling of having no clear purpose or aim
Antonyms
How Purposeful
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Aimlessness breaks into aim, meaning 'a goal or point', plus -less meaning 'without' and -ness meaning 'state of'. It means being 'without a goal'—like a small boat without a compass drifting—so it describes having no clear purpose or direction.