plotlessness en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /ˈplɑtləsnəs/
Etymology
Etymology tree English plotless Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English plotlessness From plotless + -ness.
Meanings
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(uncountable) The state of lacking a substantial plot or scheme.
I was disappointed by the plotlessness of the film: it was all action and explosions.
Both books pushed realism so far that it touched on surrealism, and both freeze-framed the present moment, compensating for their plotlessness by chronicling in loving detail the minutiae of late-20th-century life — the way the light falls on the handrail of a moving escalator, the design flaws of drinking-straws that, annoyingly, float instead of standing upright.
2000 November 4, Susannah Herbert, “Save the front page”, in The Daily Telegraph, number 45,222, section “arts&books”, page A1, column 3:
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Translations (1)
pl afabularność (lack of plot)