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placeless

British  
/ ˈpleɪsˌlɪs /

adjective

  1. not rooted in a specific place or community

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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There’s no room for humans in these pictures, but that’s essentially true of all the placeless places illustrated in this show.

From Washington Post Mar. 17, 2023

Meanwhile, the shadowy sets and placeless glamour evoke the broader tradition of German Expressionist-influenced sci-fi noir, in the vein of Brazil or City of Lost Children.

From The Verge May 30, 2022

As a building, I find the tower more appealing from a distance than I do at ground level, where a recent lobby renovation has left the ground floor feeling placeless and anodyne.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 6, 2020

Back on the plaza, the place has distinct echoes of the World Trade Center site, where a similar lack of joined-up thinking has produced an equally placeless place.

From The Guardian Apr. 9, 2019

That thing was bodiless, blind to sunlight, a creature of a lightless, placeless, timeless realm.

From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin

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