Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having no object; purposeless; aimless.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having no object; purposeless.
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- adjective Without a
purpose
Etymologies
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Examples
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The most basic approach to attention is referred to as "objectless" -- not focusing on any specific "scene" or aspect of experience, but just looking and marveling at the wide range of scenery as it comes and goes ....
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The most basic approach to attention is referred to as "objectless" -- not focusing on any specific "scene" or aspect of experience, but just looking and marveling at the wide range of scenery as it comes and goes ....
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The most basic approach to attention is referred to as "objectless" -- not focusing on any specific "scene" or aspect of experience, but just looking and marveling at the wide range of scenery as it comes and goes ....
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But in 2010, as Chairman of that same Committee, Kerry has played idle spectator to the objectless, trillion dollar, 10-year-old war in Afghanistan that is making the United States less safe and less free.
Bruce Fein: John Kerry's Afghan Dereliction of Duty Bruce Fein 2010
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But in 2010, as Chairman of that same Committee, Kerry has played idle spectator to the objectless, trillion dollar, 10-year-old war in Afghanistan that is making the United States less safe and less free.
Bruce Fein: John Kerry's Afghan Dereliction of Duty Bruce Fein 2010
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Zen meditation is offered as the radical practice of "objectless meditation," a path of relinquishing all things, including the self.
Rev. Zesho Susan O'Connell: Zen Practice Is Difficult And Dangerous Rev. Zesho Susan O'Connell 2011
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But in 2010, as Chairman of that same Committee, Kerry has played idle spectator to the objectless, trillion dollar, 10-year-old war in Afghanistan that is making the United States less safe and less free.
Bruce Fein: John Kerry's Afghan Dereliction of Duty Bruce Fein 2010
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But in 2010, as Chairman of that same Committee, Kerry has played idle spectator to the objectless, trillion dollar, 10-year-old war in Afghanistan that is making the United States less safe and less free.
Bruce Fein: John Kerry's Afghan Dereliction of Duty Bruce Fein 2010
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"To come out into an objectless view/Which is the true aim of all poetry," is a definition I use in my poems.
Archive 2010-02-01 Rus Bowden 2010
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But in 2010, as Chairman of that same Committee, Kerry has played idle spectator to the objectless, trillion dollar, 10-year-old war in Afghanistan that is making the United States less safe and less free.
Bruce Fein: John Kerry's Afghan Dereliction of Duty Bruce Fein 2010
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