contextlessadj.
Lacking a context.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > obscurity > [adjective] > lacking a context
contextless1936
the world > relative properties > relationship > relevance or pertinence > [adjective] > irrelevant > lacking a context
contextless1965
1936 Mind 45 304 Lord Russell adduces ‘it rained in London on January 1, 1066’. This is, so far, only the formal truth-claim of a contextless ‘proposition’ about an historical event.
1965 Punch 13 Oct. 551/1 They are like remembered scenes or remarks that drift into an idling mind, mattering obscurely to the thinker but contextless to anyone else.
1969 P. Dickinson Pride of Heroes 72 The seemingly contextless flurry of action..locked itself into a pattern of violence.
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