The word 'groundlessness' is correct and can be used in written English.
It means the state of being without a solid foundation or support, or the lack of logical reasoning or justification. Example: The philosopher's argument was met with skepticism due to its groundlessness.
In the history of Christian mysticism, this visionary experience of the transpersonal "Godhead" behind the personal "God" (as in the works of the medieval mystic Meister Eckhart)—also called an experience of the "trans-deity," the "divine ground," "groundlessness," the "abyss," and the divine "nothingness"—constantly breaks through and is renewed.
The sensation of uncertainty and groundlessness in Manea's stories is not unlike that in W. G. Sebald's novels, except that in Sebald's fiction the general uncertainty is offset by a sharp foreground: places, persons, dress, time of day, movement from one place to another, all are precisely specified; every inch of fictional space and every minute of fictional time are accounted for.
In his case, it was part of a quest to exacerbate the groundlessness of signs and meaning.
Despite this inner groundlessness, you appear pretty well normal, doing your everyday stuff.
** The sensation of uncertainty and groundlessness in Manea's stories is not unlike that in W. G. Sebald's novels, except that in Sebald's fiction the general uncertainty is offset by a sharp foreground: places, persons, dress, time of day, movement from one place to another, all are precisely specified; every inch of fictional space and every minute of fictional time are accounted for.
When my book does appear next month, readers will see the groundlessness of these accusations.
The gesture is luminous and sure, and comes like sudden sunlight through haze, but it is also, in this score, a fabrication, a white lie -- or more, a golden, glorious lie -- and it speaks of the groundlessness in Snow White's mind, where any affirmation can only be a momentary tactic.
They echo the groundlessness of human existence.
My personal self-awareness arises not when I recognize my identity through memory, for example, nor simply when I encounter an other I; rather it arises in experiencing the groundlessness of my own existence, in recognizing what is absolutely other to a substantial self-same self.
He does this by demonstrating the groundlessness of the fallacies Bhāvavevika attributed to Buddhapālita, and thereby rejecting Bhāvavevika's admission and imposition upon Nāgārjuna's non-foundationalist ontology of a kind of independent formal svātantra syllogism, which Candrakīrti saw as one encumbered by foundationalist metaphysics, and is incompatible with Nāgārjuna's ontology.
The domain of sense is necessarily subject to a fundamental fragility, capable of toppling over into nonsense: the ground gives way to a groundlessness, a sans-fond.
