aimlessness

aimless | American Dictionary

aimless
adjective
us/ˈeɪm·ləs/

aimlessadjective (INTEND)

without having any clear purpose or specific reason:
aimless violence

aimlessly

adverbus/ˈeɪm·ləs·li/

aimlessness

noun[ U ]us/ˈeɪm·ləs·nəs/

Examples of aimless

aimless
Although historians of science have justly criticized his boundless credulity, aimless empiricism, and exasperating eclecticism, he was nevertheless master of his craft.
And on it continues with fairly aimless triviality.
Here he gives this type of aimless, disorganized, and uncontrolled anarchism a voice.
These regularities would seem to reveal an organized system rather than the aimless effects of the random activation of affect programs during sleep.
For me they seem a bit aimless in their rich texture, and quite possibly the work of the same composer.
The most frequent presenting complaints for these disorders were insomnia, any form of aggression (termed global aggression), talking to oneself, aimless wandering, and restlessness.
Totalitarian evil, while it upheld an ideal of transformation, was essentially aimless, an end in and of itself.
The benefit of the genetic algorithm was in cross-breeding favourite responses, in nosing around the space without aimless randomisation.
The one that is of interest here adds a component to the meaning of the base verb, namely that the action is aimless.
Balanced takes alternate with others which refuse to pick a clear center of interest and merely open up a space for aimless drift.
Restlessness and aimless wandering rank fourth (39 %) and fifth (36 %) respectively.
Evers'l also offers a useful distinction between 'aimless' care and care that has a purpose beyond maintaining the status quo.
Gaspra - the title alludes to the 'aimless wandering' in space of an asteroid which is five k ilometres in diameter - is the earliest score here.
To simplify the contrast for the sake of clarity: early modern nature was benevolent, purposeful, and sovereign through enlightened assent; modern nature was indifferent, aimless, and sovereign through physical necessity.
They set a balance between encouraging pupils to try out the different possibilities of equipment, and restricting their options, to avoid time-consuming and aimless scrolling through sounds, effects or values.
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