placelessness
noun[U]
formaluk/ˈpleɪs.ləs.nəs/us/ˈpleɪs.ləs.nəs/thefactof beingsimilarto many otherplacesand having nospecialcharacter:
Architects need tocombatthe placelessness thatempiresandcorporationshaveimposed.
Respecting the city's ownidentitythroughurbanrenewalwillhelprescuecitiesfrom the placelessness ofcontemporaryinternationalarchitecture.
thefactof not being in, orconnectedwith, anyparticularplace:
He isexperiencingafeelingof placelessness.
But where thatearlierbookcenteredonrootlessnessand placelessness, "Spook Country" is moreconcernedwithtimelessness.
- Is there anything moredepressingthan theurbansprawlofcapitalismand the placelessness ofmassconsumption?
- Hetakeshismixedmotivesto avarietyofsymbolicsettings, theme-parks ofcontemporaryplacelessness: theairportin Los Angeles, thechaoticmarketplaceof Hong Kong or thehurriedlyconstructedOlympicvillagein Atlanta.
- Myfrustrationwith the toothbrush's placelessness made meworry.
- Thisparableon thedialecticofisolationis also adoublemonodrama, set in a no-man'slandof placelessness.
Being or appearing similar or the same
- a passing resemblanceidiom
- align
- aligned
- answer
- be in good companyidiom
- be in the same ballparkidiom
- be nothing/not much/very little in itidiom
- entrainment
- equal
- equalization
- even(something)out
- flatlining
- homologous
- match
- overlap
- overlapping
- parallel
- passing
- placeless
- resemble
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