aimlessness
noun
aimlessness is a noun meaning “The state or quality of being aimless, or without purpose or direction” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled A-I-M-L-E-S-S-N-E-S-S, and it appears about once in every 29 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of aimlessness is aimlessnesses.
What does aimlessness mean?
noun
- 1
The state or quality of being aimless, or without purpose or direction.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of aimlessness
- aimlessnesses plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is aimlessness?
Aimlessness appears about once in every 29 million words in written English, the 163,711th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Aimlessness in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense state or quality of being aimless, or without purpose or direction:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | Ziellosigkeit |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.