plotlessness

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/ˈplɑtləsnəs/

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.”

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Meanings

nounplotlessness (uncountable)
  1. uncountableThe state of lacking a substantial plot or scheme.

    I was disappointed by the plotlessness of the film: it was all action and explosions.

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    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

Origin

From plotless + -ness.

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Translations

Polish afabularność
  • afabularnośćlack of plot
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APA

plotlessness. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/plotlessness

MLA

“plotlessness.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/plotlessness. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “plotlessness,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/plotlessness.

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