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Answer for the clue "Having the characteristic of lacking a true course toward a goal ", 12 letters:
indirectness

Word definitions for indirectness in dictionaries

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The condition of being indirect

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. having the characteristic of lacking a true course toward a goal [ant: directness ]

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Indirectness \In`di*rect"ness\, n. The quality or state of being indirect; obliquity; deviousness; crookedness. Deviation from an upright or straightforward course; unfairness; dishonesty. --W. Montagu.

Usage examples of indirectness.

My only -and rather pitiable - concession to the Principle of Indirectness had been to take the slow rather than the express line from one city to another.

Anything was better than this constant indirectness of gaining his father's views through his mother.