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Definition of Meaninglessness
1. Noun. A message that seems to convey no meaning.
Generic synonyms: Content, Message, Subject Matter, Substance
Specialized synonyms: Absurdity, Absurdness, Ridiculousness, Amphigory, Nonsense Verse, Balderdash, Fiddle-faddle, Piffle, Buzzword, Cant, Cobblers, Crock, Fa La, Fal La, Gibber, Gibberish, Incoherence, Incoherency, Unintelligibility, Jabberwocky, Flummery, Mummery, Empty Talk, Empty Words, Hot Air, Palaver, Rhetoric, Rigamarole, Rigmarole, Schmegegge, Shmegegge, Hooey, Poppycock, Stuff, Stuff And Nonsense, Baloney, Bilgewater, Boloney, Bosh, Drool, Humbug, Taradiddle, Tarradiddle, Tommyrot, Tosh, Twaddle
Derivative terms: Meaningless, Nonsensical
2. Noun. The quality of having no value or significance. "He resented the meaninglessness of the tasks they assigned him"
Specialized synonyms: Inanity, Mindlessness, Pointlessness, Senselessness, Vacuity, Aimlessness, Purposelessness
Antonyms: Meaningfulness
Definition of Meaninglessness
1. Noun. The state of lacking meaning; the quality of being meaningless. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Meaninglessness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Meaninglessness
Literary usage of Meaninglessness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Basic Concepts in the Methodology of the Social Sciences by Johann Mouton, H. C. Marais (1988)
"meaninglessness may be defined as a low expectation that it is possible to make
meaningful predictions about the future consequences of behaviour. ..."
2. On Pain Suffering: Reminiscences, Musings and Reflections by Walter Prytulak (2001)
"If there were death, then it would contain in itself meaninglessness. ... There is
no meaninglessness in cosmic dimensions; it exists only in the world of ..."
3. Wisdom for the Soul: Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing by Larry Chang (2006)
"Which element we think outweighs the other, whether meaninglessness or ...
If meaninglessness were absolutely preponderant, the meaningfulness of life would ..."
4. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1868)
"meaninglessness, accordingly, and not a pairof intelligible realities, has to be
faced in the attempt to conceive duality beneath this unity of perception ..."
5. The Complete Works of Count Tolstoy by Leo Tolstoy (1904)
"... not be able to continue their lives, and all will perish from ennui, tedium,
and the consciousness of the meaninglessness and illegality of their lives. ..."
6. Selections from Berkeley: With an Introduction and Notes for the Use of by George Berkeley (1884)
"There is neither contradiction nor meaninglessness, he would say, in a material
world that is thus composed of the significant sense-phenomena which we all ..."
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