Another word for futility
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Noun
The condition or quality of being useless or ineffective
- Excessive pride in one's appearance or accomplishments; conceit.
- Something about which one is vain or conceited:
- Worthlessness, pointlessness, or futility:
- The property of being vain.
- the quality of being useless
- The state or condition of being unavailing; fruitlessness.
- The quality of being fruitless
- (obsolete) The quality of being unavailing or unprofitable.
- Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster's Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
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Another word for futility
Noun
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- A futile pursuit or search.
- The property of lack of importance.
- Lack of good sense, understanding, or foresight:
- An act or instance of foolishness:
- A costly undertaking having an absurd or ruinous outcome.
- An erroneous perception of reality:
- An erroneous concept or belief:
- The condition of being deceived by a false perception or belief:
- The quality or condition of being false.
- Something false; a lie.
- (obsolete) The quality of being unavailing or unprofitable.
- Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster's Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
- The property of being vain.
- The state or quality of being insubstantial.
- The state of lacking meaning; the quality of being meaningless.
- Anything that is meaningless.
- The state of being purposeless.
- The state or feeling of being empty
- Excessive pride in one's appearance or accomplishments; conceit.
- Something about which one is vain or conceited:
- Worthlessness, pointlessness, or futility:
- The state of being idle; inactivity.
- The state of being indolent; indolence
- Groundlessness; worthlessness; triviality.
- The quality or condition of being frivolous.
- A frivolous act or thing.
- The quality or condition of being trivial.
- Something trivial.
- the state or quality of being hollow
- The characteristic of being false.
- The quality of being fruitless
- The condition of being ineffective
- the quality of being useless
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