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plotless, a.|ˈplɒtlɪs|
[f. plot n. + -less.]
1. Without a plot or story; having no plot.
1704Faction Displ. x, Van's Bawdy, Plotless Plays were once our Boast. 1882Standard 25 Mar. 5 The curious plotless story called ‘Kavanagh’. 1926in C. Bailey Mind of Rome i. 167 Semi-dramatic productions, improved on the formal side but still plotless, became an established diversion. 1971Homes & Gardens Sept. 134/1 Her story reads like a charming but plotless novel. 1979A. Chisholm Nancy Cunard viii. 76 Antic Hay..is a deliberately plotless picture of..amusing, erratic, fundamentally desperate characters.
2. Ecol. Of a method of ecological sampling: not based on a defined unit of area.
1957P. Greig-Smith Quantitative Plant Ecol. ii. 46 Considerable attention has recently been paid to a method of plotless sampling, particularly adapted to forest vegetation, where there are practical difficulties in delimiting the relatively large quadrats necessary for sampling trees. 1974Mueller-Dombois & Ellenberg Aims & Methods of Vegetation Ecol. vii. 99 Plotless sampling means sampling without such a prescribed area unit. Plotless methods are available for all three commonly used quantitative parameters.
Hence ˈplotlessness.
1823J. Lacy in Lond. Mag. Dec. 648/1 The plotlessness..of modern plays. |