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Objectless vs Objectness - What's the difference?

objectless | objectness |

As an adjective objectless

is without a purpose.

As a noun objectness is

the state of being an object.

objectless

English

Adjective

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  • Without a purpose
  • *{{quote-book, year=1843, author=Various, title=Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - April 1843, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=You cannot imagine, dearest, how dreary is this idle objectless life to me; with nothing to employ me--not even correspondence. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1893, author=Annie Besant, title=Annie Besant, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=You assume, I think quite gratuitously, that God condemns the major part of His children to objectless future suffering. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1910, author=Basil King, title=The Wild Olive, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=For the moment it was a blind, objectless passion, directed against nothing and no one in particular. }}

    objectness

    English

    Noun

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  • The state of being an object
  • * {{quote-news, year=1998, date=May 15, author=Fred Camper, title=Dreams of Power, work=Chicago Reader citation
    • , passage=As a result objects that "should" dominate in Sekiguchi's work instead look strangely anomalous, as if the painter found these isolated things--steaks cut from an animal, an eye separate from the rest of a human figure--to be almost funny in their assertive objectness . }}
  • * {{quote-news, year=1994, date=July 1, author=Thomas Connors, title=The Inscrutable Nutt, work=Chicago Reader citation
    • , passage=Like much of the work, these are surrounded by painted frames that are part of the overall composition and underscore the objectness of the artwork. }}