Definition of "functionless" [func•tion•less]

• Lacking a function (adjective)

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• "Your claim that they are 'intrinsically functionless' is implausibly strong, given that functionality is always ... er, a function of contexts, which is to say, out and out extrinsic), and the radical transformation of contexts is the very thing at issue."
• "Keynes made it clear that he looked forward to a gradual annihilation of the "functionless" rentier, rather than to any sort of sudden upheaval (Keynes 1936: pp. 375-76; see also Hazlitt [1959] 1973: pp. 379-84)."
• "Mute, disposable, functionless, they are the survivors of a specific and irretrievable event."