placeless
adjEtymology From Middle English placeles, placelees, equivalent to place + -less. Piecewise doublet of piazzaless.
1
Lacking a proper place.
- a placeless person
- I own thy speechless, placeless power; but to the last gasp of my earthquake life will dispute its unconditional, unintegral mastery in me.1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick:
2
Lacking places for people, things, etc.; lacking a geographic orientation.
- a placeless society
- Derived terms
- placelessly, placelessness