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objectless, a.|ˈɒbdʒɪktlɪs|
[f. object n. + -less.]
Devoid of an object or objects.
1. Having no object to which it is directed; not relative to something else as an object.
1805Southey Madoc i. iii,His eyes..Fix'd lifelessly, or objectless they roll'd. 1868G. Macdonald Seaboard Parish I. xv. 224 Her eyes..had an infinite objectless outlook.
b. esp. Having no object or end in view; aimless, purposeless.
1818Blackw. Mag. III. 294 The dull and objectless mode of life adopted by too many of our nobility. 1846Trench Mirac. Introd. (1862) 51 They must not be aimless and objectless, fantastic freaks of power. 1879Julian Hawthorne Laughing Mill, etc. 36, I set off on an objectless tramp.
2. Devoid of (visible) objects; presenting no object to the view.
1820Blackw. Mag. VII. 263 As we were obliged to keep the glasses up, our drive for several miles was objectless and dreary. 1860Gosse Rom. Nat. Hist. 199 We trace the same bird far up in the solitudes of the sky, breaking into view out of the objectless expanse.
Hence ˈobjectlessly adv.; ˈobjectlessness.
1859R. F. Burton Centr. Afr. in Jrnl. Geog. Soc. XXIX. 55 They lie..objectlessly, needlessly, when fact would be more profitable than falsehood. 1862F. Hall Hindu Philos. Syst. 284 The doctrine of the objectlessness of Brahma's so-called cognition. 1869W. M. Rossetti Mem. Shelley p. lxxxii, The objectlessness of inventing such a tale. |