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Baseless vs Gossamer - What's the difference?

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Baseless is a related term of gossamer.


As adjectives the difference between baseless and gossamer

is that baseless is of reasoning, that is based on something that is not true while gossamer is tenuous, light, filmy or delicate.

As a noun gossamer is

a fine film or strand as of cobwebs, floating in the air or caught on bushes etc.

baseless

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Of reasoning, that is based on something that is not true.

    • Synonyms

    * unfounded

    Derived terms

    * baselessly * baselessness

    gossamer

    English

    Noun

  • A fine film or strand as of cobwebs, floating in the air or caught on bushes etc.
  • A soft, sheer fabric.
  • Anything delicate, light and flimsy.

    • Derived terms

    * gossamery (adjective)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Tenuous, light, filmy or delicate.
  • * (Thomas Bailey Aldrich) (1836-1907)
    • The heaven was spangled with tremulous stars, and at the horizon the clouds hung down in gossamer folds—God's robe trailing in the sea!
  • *{{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Michael Arlen), title= “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days, chapter=Ep./1/2
    • , passage=He walked. To the corner of Hamilton Place and Picadilly, and there stayed for a while, for it is a romantic station by night. The vague and careless rain looked like threads of gossamer silver passing across the light of the arc-lamps.}}

    Synonyms

    * gossamery