pointlessness

Noun

Meaning

total lack of meaning or ideas

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Examples

It would have been so pointless to kill himself that, even if he had wanted to, the pointlessness would have made him unable. Franz Kafka

[I]n a place with absolutely no private or personal life, with the incessant worship of a mediocre career-sadist as the only culture, where all citizens are the permanent property of the state, the highest form of pointlessness has been achieved. Christopher Hitchens

It's really easy to slide into a depression fueled by the pointlessness of existence. Robert Smith (musician)

The apparent pointlessness of fashion may be just what makes it so strong as a zeitgeist sensor. Even I, a designer, do not know why a certain proportion feels dated or why another one feels exciting at a given moment. I leave that to the cultural historians and theorists. Jil Sander

Golf is an exercise in Scottish pointlessness for people who are no longer able to throw telephone poles at each other. Florence King

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