Definition of "motivelessness" []

• Absence of a motive. (noun)

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• "The apparent motivelessness of the thing makes the mystery all the darker, and the circumstances we are acquainted with, instead of helping us, seem to complicate the puzzle."
• "For that calm which Gwendolen had promised herself to maintain had changed into sick motivelessness: she thought, "I suppose"