plotlessness

noun

1. (uncountable)The state of lacking a substantial plot or scheme.

   “I was disappointed by the plotlessness of the film: it was all action and explosions.”

   “Both books pushed realism so far that it touched on surrealism, and both freeze-framed the present moment, compensating for their plotlessness by chronicling in loving detail the minutiae of late-20th-century life — the way the light falls on the handrail of a moving escalator, the design flaws of drinking-straws that, annoyingly, float instead of standing upright.”