Meaninglessness (Noun)
Meaning 1
A message that seems to convey no meaning.
Classification
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents.
Examples
- The existential crisis hit her when she realized the words she spoke every day felt like utter meaninglessness to her listeners.
- He felt like he was staring into an abyss of meaninglessness when he looked at the stream of irrelevant social media updates.
- The message was reduced to meaninglessness as it got lost in translation and failed to convey its intended significance.
- As the minutes ticked by, the seemingly urgent text from her boss became nothing but a source of frustration and meaninglessness.
- In a chaotic world filled with contradictory ideas, it's easy to fall into a state of meaninglessness when searching for the truth.
Synonyms
Hypernyms
Hyponyms
- Flummery
- Cobblers
- Drool
- Humbug
- Rigmarole
- Rigamarole
- Baloney
- Palaver
- Fa La
- Tommyrot
- Absurdness
- Cant
- Incoherency
- Jabberwocky
- Hot Air
- Buzzword
- Hooey
- Crock
- Tarradiddle
- Piffle
- Boloney
- Twaddle
- Rhetoric
- Amphigory
- Stuff
- Fiddle-faddle
- Gibberish
- Tosh
- Gibber
- Ridiculousness
- Nonsense Verse
- Shmegegge
- Stuff And Nonsense
- Bilgewater
- Unintelligibility
- Empty Words
- Balderdash
- Fal La
- Schmegegge
- Incoherence
- Mummery
- Absurdity
- Taradiddle
Related Words
Meaning 2
The quality of having no value or significance; "he resented the meaninglessness of the tasks they assigned him".
Classification
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects.
Examples
- The existential crisis he faced made him question the meaninglessness of his mundane office job.
- She felt a sense of meaninglessness after graduating from college and not being able to find a job in her field.
- The repetition of the same tasks every day made him feel like his work was filled with meaninglessness.
- The novel explored the theme of meaninglessness in a post-apocalyptic world where humanity had lost its purpose.
- He struggled to find purpose in his life, feeling overwhelmed by the meaninglessness of his daily routine.