non-purposive
adjective
formal(alsononpurposive)uk/ˌnɒnˈpɜː.pə.sɪv/us/ˌnɑːnˈpɝː.pə.sɪv/not done with theaimofachievingaparticularthing:
Sheregardsthestateas a non-purposive, rule-basedinstitution.
Hebelievesthatevolutionoccursthrough avarietyof nonpurposivemechanisms.
- Some of thepatientsthat Isawat theclinicdisplayednonpurposivebehavioursuch asliftingthearmortwistingthefingers.
- Weseemedtoexperienceanendless, nonpurposivemovementthrough aboundlessarea.
- Thistheoryimaginesthatlawis ageneral,abstract, and non-purposivebodyofrules.
Chance and randomness
- accident
- aleatory
- arbitrarily
- arbitrariness
- arbitrary
- even-money
- fluke
- fluky
- fortuitous
- fortuitously
- long shot
- luck
- luck intosomething
- more by accident than designidiom
- more by luck than judgmentidiom
- randomized
- randomly
- randomness
- serendipitous
- stumble intosomething