Meaning of FUTILITY
| Pronunciation: | | fyoo'tilitee
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| | Definition: | | [n] uselessness as a consequence of having no practical result |
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| | See Also: | | inutility, unusefulness, uselessness | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Fu"til`i*ty\, n. [L. futilitas: cf. F. futilit['e].]
1. The quality of being talkative; talkativeness;
loquaciousness; loquacity. [Obs.]
2. The quality of producing no valuable effect, or of coming
to nothing; uselessness.
The futility of this mode of philosophizing.
--Whewell.
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| | Related Terms: | | absurdity, aimlessness, bankruptcy, big deal, blank future, bleak outlook, bootlessness, counterproductiveness, counterproductivity, dead letter, defeat, emptiness, empty sound, failure, fatuity, fecklessness, flimsiness, foolishness, frivolity, frivolousness, fruitlessness, hollowness, hopelessness, idleness, ill success, impoliticalness, impoliticness, impossibility, impotence, inadvisability, inanity, inappropriateness, inaptitude, incongruity, inconvenience, inconveniency, ineffectiveness, ineffectuality, ineffectualness, inefficaciousness, inefficacy, ineptitude, inexpectation, inexpedience, inexpediency, infelicity, inopportuneness, insignificance, invalidity, levity, lightness, losing game, meaninglessness, mere noise, no go, no hope, noise, nonaccomplishment, nonsensicality, nonsuccess, not a prayer, nugacity, nullity, otiosity, phatic communion, pointlessness, profitlessness, purposelessness, rat race, senselessness, shallowness, silliness, slenderness, slightness, small hope, successlessness, superficiality, the absurd, triflingness, triteness, triviality, trivialness, undesirability, unfitness, unfittingness, unfortunateness, unhopefulness, unmeaningness, unmeetness, unproductiveness, unprofitability, unprofitableness, unseasonableness, unseemliness, unsignificancy, unsuccess, unsuccessfulness, unsuitability, untimeliness, unwiseness, uselessness, vacuity, valuelessness, vanity, vapidity, vicious circle, worthlessness, wrongness |
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