1
: lacking a fixed location
2
: indistinguishable from other such places in appearance or character
a placeless parking complex—
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placelessly
adverb
placelessness
noun
Examples of placeless in a Sentence
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There’s no room for humans in these pictures, but that’s essentially true of all the placeless places illustrated in this show.
—Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 17 Mar. 2023
The understanding of globalization as an evil force—placeless, technical, and without strong connections to the earth—could be easily grafted onto religious notions about sexuality, race, and patriarchal authority.
—Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 21 Sep. 2022
His placelessness gave him the same advantageous allure of other placeless stars.
—New York Times, 7 Jan. 2022
Often in the white literary imagination, the Black-white mixed woman is placeless and without people.
—Brittany Luse, Vulture, 18 Oct. 2021
According to The New York Daily News, the city is in the process of relocating other unhoused people, many with disabilities, from a Midtown shelter in order to make room for the newly placeless former residents of the Upper West Side.
—Apoorva Tadepalli, The New Republic, 14 Sep. 2020
Hong Kong was always placeless, international, in flux, a portal to the world.
—Mary Hui, Quartz, 11 June 2020
Although his career-long north star has been pleasantly placeless pop, Timberlake is a Memphis native.
—Daniel D'addario, Time, 2 Feb. 2018
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Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 17 Mar. 2023
The understanding of globalization as an evil force—placeless, technical, and without strong connections to the earth—could be easily grafted onto religious notions about sexuality, race, and patriarchal authority.
—Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 21 Sep. 2022
His placelessness gave him the same advantageous allure of other placeless stars.
—New York Times, 7 Jan. 2022
Often in the white literary imagination, the Black-white mixed woman is placeless and without people.
—Brittany Luse, Vulture, 18 Oct. 2021
According to The New York Daily News, the city is in the process of relocating other unhoused people, many with disabilities, from a Midtown shelter in order to make room for the newly placeless former residents of the Upper West Side.
—Apoorva Tadepalli, The New Republic, 14 Sep. 2020
Hong Kong was always placeless, international, in flux, a portal to the world.
—Mary Hui, Quartz, 11 June 2020
Although his career-long north star has been pleasantly placeless pop, Timberlake is a Memphis native.
—Daniel D'addario, Time, 2 Feb. 2018
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“Placeless.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/placeless. Accessed 30 Oct. 2025.
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