meaningless
Some modern philosophers have said that the elusiveness of happiness shows the absurdity and meaninglessness of life.
the utter meaninglessness of violence and war
I realised that I live with the meaninglessness of life all the time.
the meaninglessness of confessions extracted under threat of torture

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Useless and futile
Of little or less importance

Examples of meaninglessness

meaninglessness
Outside the cloister gates, disorder reigned: a general lack of planning revealed the meaninglessness of the outward, secular life.
This feeling of meaninglessness can manifest in a state of boredom.
The kind of life in question is, as we have seen, a life which begins, spiritually speaking, in the predicament of meaninglessness.
The illness itself was discussed in terms of meaninglessness.
In order for meaninglessness to be a pattern value it must appear in the pattern of the distribution of well-being.
They metaphorize her diction and figurative language, for example, in terms of chaos, terror, and meaninglessness.
For soldiers caught in the ponderous machinery of a ground war, heroism is an intoxicating antidote to abject terror and meaninglessness.
Something of the almighty importance of it and something of the utter meaninglessness.
The play evoked numerous existential issues including the limitations of life, responsibility, freedom, groundlessness, death anxiety, and, in particular, existential isolation and meaninglessness.
However, fashion attracted him in the first place because it was associated with frivolity, fleeting fads, expense, and meaninglessness.
Spirituality for several of this team's members was often experienced in moments of mystery or wrestling with meaninglessness.
Here the general hedonist is entitled to more argument in support of the intuition of meaninglessness.
The net result of this vague arm-waving is that all arguments can be won and the importance of contingent factors, such as they are, dissolves into near meaninglessness.
But, he said, when he attempted to think about the situation, to reflect on it rationally and make some judgement about how things were progressing, his thoughts collapsed into meaninglessness.
The 5-hour workshop appeared to have a modest but significant beneficial effect on nurse-reported practice, attitudes, and confidence in providing care for terminally ill cancer patients feeling meaninglessness.
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