Word info Synonyms Antonyms

meaningfulness

Noun

Meaning

the quality of having great value or significance

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

Show all synonyms

Antonyms

Show all antonyms

Hypernyms

Hyponyms

Examples

Man is in fact nailed down - like Christ on the Cross - to a grid of paradoxes... he balances between the torment of not knowing his mission and the joy of carrying it out, between nothingness and meaningfulness. And like Christ, he is in fact victorious by virtue of his defeats. Václav Havel

Man cannot endure his own littleness unless he can translate it into meaningfulness on the largest possible level. Ernest Becker

Men in plural [...] can experience meaningfulness only because they can talk with and make sense to each other and themselves. Hannah Arendt

The higher standard of living, the more consideration we give to the fun we derive from what we do and its meaningfulness. Russell L. Ackoff

I think happiness is a combination of pleasure, engagement and meaningfulness. Ian K. Smith

Humans find meaningfulness where none exists because we want to create a sense of order in this chaotic universe. It's called apophenia. (And it's also the reason people believe in God.) Megan McCafferty

Close letter words and terms