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aimlessness

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aim·less  (mls)
adj.
Devoid of direction or purpose.
aimless·ly adv.
aimless·ness n.
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Noun1.aimlessness - the quality of lacking any definite purpose
purposelessness
meaninglessness - the quality of having no value or significance; "he resented the meaninglessness of the tasks they assigned him"
Translations
aimlessness [ˈeɪmlɪsnɪs] N [of wandering] → falta f de rumbo; [of life] → falta f de sentido, falta f de propósito; [of conversation] → falta f de objeto
aimlessness
n → Ziellosigkeit f; (of talk, action) → Planlosigkeit f


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Those moans express in the first place all the aimlessness of your pain, which is so humiliating to your consciousness; the whole legal system of nature on which you spit disdainfully, of course, but from which you suffer all the same while she does not.
Notes from the Underground by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor View in context
Soon the girl discovered that if she walked with such apparent aimlessness, some men looked at her with calculating eyes.
Maggie: A Girl of the Streets by Crane, Stephen View in context
His ideal, the Superman, lends him the cheerfulness necessary to the overcoming of that despair usually attendant upon godlessness and upon the apparent aimlessness of a world without a god.
Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book For All And None by Nietzsche, Friedrich View in context
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