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The quality of being futile or useless.uncountableusually
- an exercise of futility
- His taking the bar exam for a third time was pure futility.
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Something, especially an act, that is futile.countableusually
- But fashion and authority apart, and bringing Plato to the test of reason, take from him, his sophisms, futilities, and incomprehensibilities, and what remains?
- No man oppresses thee, can bid thee fetch or carry, come or go, without reason shewn. […] No man, wiser, unwiser, can make thee come or go: but thy own futilities, bewilderments, thy false appetites for Money, Windsor Georges and such like?
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Unimportance.uncountableusually
- Her empty chatter, her futility, her childish coquetry and frivolity—such light wares could hardly be the whole substance of any woman’s being; […]
futility
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