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referentless

adj

Etymology

From referent + -less.

  1. derived from referre
  2. derived from referer
  3. inherited from referren
  4. suffixed as referent — “refer + ent”
  5. suffixed as referentless — “referent + less”

Definitions

  1. Without a referent.

    • In our criticism of referentless scientific nouns, like force and utility, we have gone far beyond the orthodox logical positivist position.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for referentless. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA