FUTILITY

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Uselessness as a consequence of having no practical result

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("futility" is a kind of...):

inutility; unusefulness; uselessness (the quality of having no practical use)

Derivation:

futile (producing no result or effect)

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