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baselessness

  • a word derived from baseless.
    baseless
    adjective
    having no base; without foundation; groundless.

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Again, the baselessness of this charge can be quickly deduced from its failure to jibe with what we know of Francis Albert's character.

From Time Magazine Archive

Attorney Thomas Lincoln Chadbourne, director of the bank and its counsel, called all the ugly rumors lies, spoke of their "utter baselessness, sheer malignancy."

From Time Magazine Archive

Other people will soon follow suit, and a fad will be born and thrive for a while despite its baselessness.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos

He was a powerful writer and lecturer, an occasional visitor at Brook Farm, but his mental baselessness perhaps repelled nearly as many as his ingenuity beguiled.

From Transcendentalism in New England A History by Octavius Brooks Frothingham

The five days' resistance of Lord Wake's border peel of Castleton in Liddesdale showed the baselessness of this imagination.

From The History of England From the Accession of Henry III. to the Death of Edward III. (1216-1377) by William Hunt