groundless
adjective
without rational basis.
groundlessness
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a word derived from
groundless.
Example Sentences
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Despite this inner groundlessness, you appear pretty well normal, doing your everyday stuff.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 17, 2012
Then he returned and reasoned with them on the groundlessness of their suspicions.
From Among the Wild Tribes of the Afghan Frontier A Record of Sixteen Years' Close Intercourse with the Natives of the Indian Marches by T. L. (Theodore Leighton) Pennell
His death showed the groundlessness of the charge, for the omnibus immediately failed.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 8, January, 1851 by Various
A cursory examination of the question might have served to prove the groundlessness of this assertion.
From An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800 by Mary Frances Cusack
Although thus convinced of the groundlessness of his alarm, the palpitation of his heart increased in violence, until it became painful and alarming; the oppression on his breast grew more and more severe.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847 by Various
