Term: purposelessness: the quality of lacking any definite purpose
Candidate hypernym: meaninglessness: the quality of having no value or significance → 1
Candidate hypernym: dust devil: a miniature whirlwind strong enough to whip dust and leaves and litter into the air → 0
Candidate hypernym: conscience: a feeling of shame when you do something immoral → 0
Candidate hypernym: hygrodeik: a wet and dry bulb hygrometer → 0
Candidate hypernym: western buttercup: perennial of western North America → 0
Candidate hypernym: salmon oil: a fatty oil obtained from the wastes in canning salmon; used in making soap and dressing leather → 0
Candidate hypernym: eyebrow: the arch of hair above each eye → 0
Candidate hypernym: schnook: (Yiddish) a gullible simpleton more to be pitied than despised → 0
Candidate hypernym: american white birch: small American birch with peeling white bark often worked into e.g. baskets or toy canoes → 0
Candidate hypernym: machupo virus: the RNA virus that causes Bolivian hemorrhagic fever; carried by rats and mice → 0
Candidate hypernym: costochondritis: inflammation at the junction of a rib and its cartilage → 0