plotlessness
The state of lacking a substantial plot or scheme.
Noun
- 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...
Origin
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.