plotlessness

plotless +‎ -ness

• IPA^(key): /ˈplɑtləsnəs/

plotlessness (not comparable)

1. The state of lacking a substantial plot or scheme.

   I was disappointed by the plotlessness of the film: it was all action and explosions.

   • 2000 November 4, Susannah Herbert, “Save the front page”, in The Daily Telegraph, number 45,222, section “arts&books”, page A1, column 3:

     Both books pushed realism so far that it touched on surrealism, and both freeze-framed the present moment, compensating for their plotlessness by chronicling in loving detail the minutiae of late-20th-century life — the way the light falls on the handrail of a moving escalator, the design flaws of drinking-straws that, annoyingly, float instead of standing upright.

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