Hypertext Webster Gateway: "futility"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Futility \Fu"til`i*ty\, n. [L. futilitas: cf. F. futilit['e].]
1. The quality of being talkative; talkativeness;
loquaciousness; loquacity. [Obs.]
2. The quality of producing no valuable effect, or of coming
to nothing; uselessness.
The futility of this mode of philosophizing.
--Whewell.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
futility
n : uselessness as a consequence of having no practical result
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