meaninglessness
1. a message that seems to convey no meaning
• Syn:
nonsense, bunk, nonsensicality, hokum
• Derivationally related forms:
meaningless, nonsensical (for: nonsensicality)
• Hypernyms:
message, content, subject matter, substance
• Hyponyms:
absurdity, absurdness, ridiculousness, amphigory, nonsense verse,
balderdash, fiddle-faddle, piffle, buzzword, cant, cobblers,
crock, fa la, fal la, gibberish, gibber, incoherence,
incoherency, unintelligibility, jabberwocky, mummery, flummery, palaver,
hot air, empty words, empty talk, rhetoric, rigmarole, rigamarole,
shmegegge, schmegegge, stuff, stuff and nonsense, hooey, poppycock,
baloney, boloney, bilgewater, bosh, drool, humbug,
taradiddle, tarradiddle, tommyrot, tosh, twaddle
2. the quality of having no value or significance
- he resented the meaninglessness of the tasks they assigned him
• Ant:
meaningfulness
• Hypernyms:
insignificance
• Hyponyms:
inanity, senselessness, mindlessness, vacuity, pointlessness,
purposelessness, aimlessness
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