Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The character of being motiveless.
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- noun Absence of a
motive .
Etymologies
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motiveless + -ness
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Examples
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The apparent motivelessness of the thing makes the mystery all the darker, and the circumstances we are acquainted with, instead of helping us, seem to complicate the puzzle.
The Red Triangle Being Some Further Chronicles of Martin Hewitt, Investigator Arthur Morrison 1904
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For that calm which Gwendolen had promised herself to maintain had changed into sick motivelessness: she thought, "I suppose
Daniel Deronda George Eliot 1849
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