Futility

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  • noun. The quality of having no useful result; uselessness.
  • noun. Lack of importance or purpose; frivolousness.
  • noun. A futile act.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The quality or character of being futile
  • noun. The qnality of producing no valuable effect; uselessness; triflingness; unimportance; want of weight or result: as, the futility of measures or schemes; to expose the futility of arguments.
  • noun. Synonyms Nouns formed from adjectives under futile.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The quality of being talkative; talkativeness; loquaciousness; loquacity.
  • noun. The quality of producing no valuable effect, or of coming to nothing; uselessness.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. The quality of being futile or useless.
  • noun. Something, especially an act, that is futile.
  • noun. Unimportance.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. uselessness as a consequence of having no practical result
  • Word Usage
    "No the whole point of this little exercise in futility is to be able to point at this legislation and claim some credit for “protecting ppl from net nasties” with whichever special interest group the pollie or bureacrat is currently trying to curry favour with."
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