futility
noun/fjuːˈtɪlɪti/UK/fjuˈtɪləti/US
Etymology
From Latin fūtilitās (“worthlessness, futility”). By surface analysis, futile + -ity.
- borrowed from fūtilitās
Definitions
The quality of being futile or useless.
- an exercise of futility
- His taking the bar exam for a third time was pure futility.
- “Has my dad come?” he asked. “You can see he hasn’t,” said Mrs. Morel, cross with the futility of the question.
Something, especially an act, that is futile.
- But fashion and authority apart, and bringing Plato to the test of reason, take from him, his sophisms, futilities, and incomprehensibilities, and what remains?
Unimportance.
- Her empty chatter, her futility, her childish coquetry and frivolity—such light wares could hardly be the whole substance of any woman’s being; […]
The neighborhood
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for futility. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA