Purposelessness (Noun)
Meaning
The quality of lacking any definite purpose.
Classification
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects.
Examples
- The feeling of purposelessness that settled over her after graduation was overwhelming.
- His life seemed to be consumed by a sense of purposelessness, wandering aimlessly from one dead-end job to another.
- The purposelessness of the exercise was evident to everyone involved, but they went through the motions anyway.
- After her mother's passing, she felt a sense of purposelessness, as if her reason for being had been taken away.
- The city's sprawling suburbs seemed to embody a sense of purposelessness, a never-ending expanse of strip malls and chain restaurants.