The groundlessness of their report was quickly recognized.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

Adjective : groundless fears.    From Dictionary.com. 

And that's why I used earlier on the admittedly quite controversial word, 'groundlessness'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Not Being Serious: Thomas Merton and Karl Barth] Reference

Smiling over the groundlessness of her fears, Sara hastened away to.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hermit of Far End] Reference

They display to the world the utter groundlessness of the charge of a conspiracy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The American Missionary — Volume 42, No. 10, October, 1888] Reference

The incontestable points above enumerated show the groundlessness of such an alleged fear.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 2, August, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference

This shows the groundlessness of the fear parents have of allowing their children to fast when necessary.    From Wordnik.com.  [Maintaining Health Formerly Health and Efficiency] Reference

So don't be afraid of softness, openness, and the groundlessness that can accompany the giving up of concept.    From Wordnik.com.  [Susan Piver: 3 Reasons to Meditate] Reference

Not until his arrival in that great city, London, did he learn of the groundlessness of his hope for aid from the expected quarter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hidden Treasures Or, Why Some Succeed While Others Fail] Reference

This report again shows the utter groundlessness of claims that a patients 'bill of rights will significantly increase health care costs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Statement By The President On Patient Bill Of Rights] Reference

If we were for a moment inclined to hope that we should now be left unmolested, we soon learned the groundlessness of such an expectation.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Island Home] Reference

Therefore it is no surprise that he thought seriously about the groundlessness of concepts where no methods were available for their measurement.    From Wordnik.com.  [Operationalism] Reference

We shall therefore proceed to show the groundlessness of the entire controversy from evidence which satisfactorily establishes that the authentic form of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Morality as a Religion An exposition of some first principles] Reference

In South Carolina, General Hayne issued a proclamation "to prove the groundlessness of the existing alarms," -- thus implying that serious alarms existed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 46, August, 1861] Reference

Willing is primal being, and all the predicates of primal being only fit willing: groundlessness, eternity, being independent of time, self-affirmation™.    From Wordnik.com.  [Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling] Reference

Intimated, estimated, and closely timed: clocked by the fast paced — fast spaced — misfires of the determinate across the terrain of its own groundlessness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Phonemanography: Romantic to Victorian] Reference

He now entered more fully into the charges which Lord Howick had brought against the management of his father's estates in Demarara, and showed their groundlessness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Grand Old Man] Reference

The domain of sense is necessarily subject to a fundamental fragility, capable of toppling over into non-sense: the ground gives way to a groundlessness, a sans-fond.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gilles Deleuze] Reference

Then reflecting also — the possible groundlessness of these fears, based on nothing more, maybe, than the chance shots of passing hunters on the lake or in these woods.    From Wordnik.com.  [An American Tragedy] Reference

If the prior unanimity was adequate to prove its dogmatic truth, why should not the spectacle offered by educated Europe and America be sufficient to show its groundlessness?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Morality as a Religion An exposition of some first principles] Reference

Considerations showing the groundlessness of these fears.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution, Vol. VIII] Reference

Grant's immediate reply confessed the groundlessness of his apprehensions.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln Condensed from Nicolay & Hay's Abraham Lincoln: A History] Reference

The ridiculous little phrases convinced him of the groundlessness of his suspicion.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tysons (Mr. and Mrs. Nevill Tyson)] Reference

Feeling the groundlessness of what I was saying, I ceased, and no one condescended to reply.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peter Schlemihl] Reference

And yet, when he made Dounia his offer, he was fully aware of the groundlessness of all the gossip.    From Wordnik.com.  [Prestuplenie i nakazanie. English] Reference

He triumphed over his wife when they were alone, and laughed at the groundlessness of her suspicions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tom Brown at Oxford] Reference

A cursory examination of the question might have served to prove the groundlessness of this assertion.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800] Reference

Then recognising the groundlessness of his apprehensions, he had continued his road with renewed ardour.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wood Rangers The Trappers of Sonora] Reference

Surely, if the danger is groundless, there can be no harm in endeavoring to ascertain its groundlessness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Samuel F. B. Morse, His Letters and Journals In Two Volumes, Volume II] Reference

As to the imputation of disloyalty, we have elsewhere had occasion to notice its apparent groundlessness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic — Volume 3] Reference

Tycho's secretary replied quietly enough, pointing out the groundlessness and ingratitude of the accusation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pioneers of Science] Reference

I ought to have exposed its groundlessness, its folly, and its mischievous and miserable tendency at considerable length.    From Wordnik.com.  [Modern Skepticism: A Journey Through the Land of Doubt and Back Again A Life Story] Reference

Suffolk not only convinced him of the groundlessness of his jealousy, but contrived to incense him strongly against Wolsey.    From Wordnik.com.  [Windsor Castle] Reference

Well, I love the stuff the Pema Chodron says about groundlessness, and how this stuff crops up, and what Buddhists do about it.    From Wordnik.com.  [News & Politics] Reference

The fear of ridicule was uppermost in his mind, and he was more relieved at his mistake not being overheard than at its groundlessness.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Sappho of Green Springs] Reference

Mr. President, I had occasion, a few days ago to expose the utter groundlessness of the personal charges made by the Senator from Illinois.    From Wordnik.com.  [American Eloquence, Volume 3 Studies In American Political History (1897)] Reference