单词 | resultlessness |
释义 | > as lemmasreˈsultlessness reˈsultlessness n. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > uselessness, vanity, or futility > [noun] > uselessness or unproductiveness fruitlessness1615 sterility1661 profitlessness1822 bootlessness1830 unfruitfulness1850 resultlessness1852 1852 W. Pulsford tr. J. Müller Christian Doctr. Sin I. ii. iv. 429 This resultlessness shows itself very distinctly in the hard endeavorings of Vatke to make, if possible, this intelligible necessity of evil equal to the moral necessity. 1914 Mind 23 144 The book..leaves a most unpleasant sense of the resultlessness of the struggle for knowledge. 1998 N. Rescher Communicative Pragmatism & Other Ess. iv. 78 We should, by accepting each of these claims and conjoining them into a single whole, again be driven to the impossible conclusion of resultlessness. < as lemmas |
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