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MEANINGLESSNESS

 Dictionary entry overview: What does meaninglessness mean? 

MEANINGLESSNESS (noun)
  The noun MEANINGLESSNESS has 2 senses:

1. a message that seems to convey no meaning
2. the quality of having no value or significance

  Familiarity information: MEANINGLESSNESS used as a noun is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


MEANINGLESSNESS (noun)


Sense 1meaninglessness [BACK TO TOP]

Meaning:

A message that seems to convey no meaning

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

hokum; meaninglessness; nonsense; nonsensicality; bunk

Hypernyms ("meaninglessness" is a kind of...):

content; message; subject matter; substance (what a communication that is about something is about)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "meaninglessness"):

hooey; poppycock; stuff; stuff and nonsense (senseless talk)

schmegegge; shmegegge ((Yiddish) baloney; hot air; nonsense)

rigamarole; rigmarole (a set of confused and meaningless statements)

empty talk; empty words; hot air; palaver; rhetoric (loud and confused and empty talk)

flummery; mummery (meaningless ceremonies and flattery)

jabberwocky (nonsensical language (according to Lewis Carroll))

incoherence; incoherency; unintelligibility (nonsense that is simply incoherent and unintelligible)

gibber; gibberish (unintelligible talking)

fa la; fal la (meaningless syllables in the refrain of a partsong)

crock (nonsense; foolish talk)

cobblers (nonsense)

buzzword; cant (stock phrases that have become nonsense through endless repetition)

balderdash; fiddle-faddle; piffle (trivial nonsense)

amphigory; nonsense verse (nonsensical writing (usually verse))

absurdity; absurdness; ridiculousness (a message whose content is at variance with reason)

baloney; bilgewater; boloney; bosh; drool; humbug; taradiddle; tarradiddle; tommyrot; tosh; twaddle (pretentious or silly talk or writing)


Sense 2meaninglessness [BACK TO TOP]

Meaning:

The quality of having no value or significance

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Context example:

he resented the meaninglessness of the tasks they assigned him

Hypernyms ("meaninglessness" is a kind of...):

insignificance (the quality of having little or no significance)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "meaninglessness"):

inanity; mindlessness; pointlessness; senselessness; vacuity (total lack of meaning or ideas)

aimlessness; purposelessness (the quality of lacking any definite purpose)

Antonym:

meaningfulness (the quality of having great value or significance)


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