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futility

Noun

Meaning

The quality of being talkative; talkativeness; loquaciousness; loquacity.

The quality of producing no valuable effect, or of coming to nothing; uselessness.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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The fatal futility of Fact. Henry James

The poor on the borderline of starvation live purposeful lives. To be engaged in a desperate struggle for food and shelter is to be wholly free from a sense of futility. Eric Hoffer

It is not the actual enjoyment of pleasure that we desire. What we want is to test the futility of that pleasure, so as to be no longer obsessed by it. Cesare Pavese

We've been devastated by the severest and deadliest drought in history – that of our profound awareness of the futility of all effort and the vanity of all plans. Fernando Pessoa

The dread of futility has been my life-long plague. Maya Angelou

Sometimes the act of walking in the face of the elements helps us come to grips with reality. Or it simply exhausts us to the point of seeing the futility of resisting reality and the futility of denial. John Ashcroft

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