The word "causeless" is usable in written English, though it is not commonly used
It can be employed to describe something that lacks a cause or reason. Example: "His anger seemed causeless, leaving everyone confused about what had triggered it." Alternatives include "unjustified" or "groundless."
His world was not theirs, the world of causes — social, historical, economic — but something almost causeless, the mal du siècle, in its turn-of-the-century form: the crippling of action by thought, the erasure of the present by the future (fantasy) and the past (remorse).
In a paper written a year ago*, Mr Hall described such apparently "causeless" recessions as perplexing.Mr Hall is chairman of the committee of the National Bureau of Economic Research, an academic group that "officially" declares when recessions begin and end.
Although she suffered from depression, scruples a causeless feeling of guilt and, at the end, religious doubts, she kept the rule to perfection and maintained a smiling, pleasant, and unselfish manner.
"Yes, it's the same oak," thought Prince Andrei, and suddenly a causeless springtime feeling of joy and renewal came over him.
Hollywood has had no shortage of poor kids driven mad by envy of their wealthier pals, causeless rebels, anxious adolescents wrestling with sexuality — no shortage, indeed, of youthful games that bleed into adult betrayals.
It popularly evokes long English summers, newly mown grass, the causeless boredom of childhood.
"We're told that there was a causeless hatred — sinat chinam — among the Jews.
"He told me," Dostoyevsky recalled in a letter written years later, "that all the good, simple people in his novels... are what he wanted to have been, and his villains were what he was (or rather, what he found in himself), his cruelty, his attacks of causeless enmity towards those who were helpless and looked to him for comfort, his shrinking from those whom he ought to love..
All of us, believers and unbelievers alike, hang our heads before the unknowable mystery of causeless human pain.
This is the same explanation for the destruction as the rabbis arrived at independently, seeing it as due to "causeless hatred".
We took a fiacre from the line outside the cathedral, the sky above us alive with the same strange, causeless light.
