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MEANINGLESSNESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The quality of having no value or significance
Example:
he resented the meaninglessness of the tasks they assigned him
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("meaninglessness" is a kind of...):
insignificance (the quality of having little or no significance)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "meaninglessness"):
inanity; mindlessness; pointlessness; senselessness; vacuity (total lack of meaning or ideas)
aimlessness; purposelessness (the quality of lacking any definite purpose)
Antonym:
meaningfulness (the quality of having great value or significance)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A message that seems to convey no meaning
Synonyms:
bunk; hokum; meaninglessness; nonsense; nonsensicality
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("meaninglessness" is a kind of...):
content; message; subject matter; substance (what a communication that is about something is about)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "meaninglessness"):
baloney; bilgewater; boloney; bosh; drool; humbug; taradiddle; tarradiddle; tommyrot; tosh; twaddle (pretentious or silly talk or writing)
hooey; poppycock; stuff; stuff and nonsense (senseless talk)
schmegegge; shmegegge ((Yiddish) baloney; hot air; nonsense)
rigamarole; rigmarole (a set of confused and meaningless statements)
empty talk; empty words; hot air; palaver; rhetoric (loud and confused and empty talk)
flummery; mummery (meaningless ceremonies and flattery)
jabberwocky (nonsensical language (according to Lewis Carroll))
incoherence; incoherency; unintelligibility (nonsense that is simply incoherent and unintelligible)
gibber; gibberish (unintelligible talking)
fa la; fal la (meaningless syllables in the refrain of a partsong)
crock (nonsense; foolish talk)
cobblers (nonsense)
buzzword; cant (stock phrases that have become nonsense through endless repetition)
balderdash; fiddle-faddle; piffle (trivial nonsense)
amphigory; nonsense verse (nonsensical writing (usually verse))
absurdity; absurdness; ridiculousness (a message whose content is at variance with reason)
Derivation:
meaningless (having no meaning or direction or purpose)
