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meaninglessness

n. 1 The state of lacking meaning; the quality of being meaningless. 2 Anything that is meaningless.

WordNet
meaninglessness
  1. n. a message that seems to convey no meaning [syn: nonsense, bunk, nonsensicality, hokum]

  2. the quality of having great value or significance; "he resented the meaninglessness of the tasks they assigned him" [ant: meaningfulness]

Usage examples of "meaninglessness".

Human life takes place along that border, touching it from time to time, so that one false step can lead a person into meaninglessness and, consequently, a lack of will to live.

Whenever Benton has to change his identity, which he does whenever needed, he suffers a period of depression and meaninglessness, finding himself once again angrier than is necessary and all the more determined to prevail without burning with hate.

What Macbeth finds staggering in this is the ease with which the leaders of the field not only accept such tautologies blithely as inherent in their belief system, but are unable to see anything improper in tautological reasoning or the meaninglessness of any conclusions drawn from it.