groundlessness
Lack of justification
Groundlessness is the quality of having no basis or foundation.
A claim's groundlessness means it lacks supporting evidence or justification: The groundlessness of the accusations became apparent during cross-examination.
In Buddhist philosophy, groundlessness refers to the absence of any fixed, stable reference point in experience—the recognition that nothing permanent underlies existence.
Without factual support
- unsubstantiatedWithout supporting evidence
- unsupportedLacking backing or proof
- unwarrantedWithout adequate justification
- unjustifiedLacking adequate reason
spurious · fabrication · conjecture · speculation · assumption · presumption · guesswork · rumor
Persistent apprehensive distress
- vulnerabilityOpenness to harm
- uneaseMild persistent worry
- apprehensionNervous anticipation of trouble
- trepidationFearful uncertainty
disquiet · instability · precariousness · shakiness · vertigo · disorientation · rootlessness · displacement
Lack of firm belief
- ambiguityOpenness to multiple interpretations
- indeterminacyLack of fixed outcome
- vaguenessAbsence of precision
- unpredictabilityState resisting forecasts
unknowing · confusion · perplexity · questioning · ambivalence · tentativeness · inconclusiveness · indefiniteness
Brevity of existence
- fluxContinuous change or flow
- ephemeralityCondition of being brief
- emptinessAbsence of substance
- insubstantialityAbsence of physical substance
illusoriness · formlessness · void · dissolution · evanescence · mutability · fluidity · changeability
unfounded
Without factual support
- unsubstantiatedWithout supporting evidence
- unsupportedLacking backing or proof
- unwarrantedWithout adequate justification
unjustified · spurious · fabrication · conjecture · speculation · assumption · presumption · guesswork · rumor · allegation
anxiety
Persistent apprehensive distress
- vulnerabilityOpenness to harm
- uneaseMild persistent worry
- apprehensionNervous anticipation of trouble
trepidation · disquiet · instability · precariousness · shakiness · vertigo · disorientation · rootlessness · displacement · alienation
doubt
Lack of firm belief
- ambiguityOpenness to multiple interpretations
- indeterminacyLack of fixed outcome
- vaguenessAbsence of precision
unpredictability · unknowing · confusion · perplexity · questioning · ambivalence · tentativeness · inconclusiveness · indefiniteness · haziness
transience
Brevity of existence
- fluxContinuous change or flow
- ephemeralityCondition of being brief
- emptinessAbsence of substance
insubstantiality · illusoriness · formlessness · void · dissolution · evanescence · mutability · fluidity · changeability · fleetingness
- existential dreadexistential dread, existential angst, existential anxiety, existential crisis, dread
- existentialismexistence, authenticity, existential angst, existential crisis, angst
- HeideggerDasein, being-in-the-world, authenticity, inauthenticity, care
- deprivationlack, deprivation, need, want, shortage
- Arbitrarinessrandomness, caprice, whimsy, capriciousness, haphazardness
- dysfunctiondysfunction, malfunction, breakdown, failure, defect
groundlessnesssubstantiation
Proof of truth
justification · foundation · corroboration · documentation · factual basis
groundlessnesssoundness
Reliability of structure
validity · reasonableness · legitimacy · rationality · cogency
groundlessnessproof
Demonstration of truth
verification · confirmation · substantiation · authentication · vindication
ground, background, grounds, grounded, groundwork, grounding, groundless, aground, ungrounded