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Recent Examples of meaninglessness
The meaninglessness made Kinney’s use of the phrase reach a sort of ultra-virality that has been steadily growing all year.
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Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 23 Oct. 2025
Is this, as The Wall Street Journal recently described it, akin to if absurdist-existentialist philosopher Albert Camus had a TikTok, given his firm grasp of meaninglessness?
—Kevin Dolak, HollywoodReporter, 16 Oct. 2025
Whether through meditation, prayer, ritual, or service, spiritual engagement appears to offer a sense of belonging and alignment with something greater—an antidote to isolation and meaninglessness in an age that often prizes individualism.
—Robert B. Tucker, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
She’s contacted by an alternate version of her husband who tells her that another version of their daughter, Joy, has been driven mad by the apparent meaninglessness of any single version of existence.
—Joshua Rothman, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025
Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 23 Oct. 2025
Is this, as The Wall Street Journal recently described it, akin to if absurdist-existentialist philosopher Albert Camus had a TikTok, given his firm grasp of meaninglessness?
—Kevin Dolak, HollywoodReporter, 16 Oct. 2025
Whether through meditation, prayer, ritual, or service, spiritual engagement appears to offer a sense of belonging and alignment with something greater—an antidote to isolation and meaninglessness in an age that often prizes individualism.
—Robert B. Tucker, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
She’s contacted by an alternate version of her husband who tells her that another version of their daughter, Joy, has been driven mad by the apparent meaninglessness of any single version of existence.
—Joshua Rothman, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for meaninglessness
Noun
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Is the endangered Chicago Bear about to stumble out of the wilderness after three decades of irrelevance?—
Parker Gabriel,
Denver Post,
17 Oct. 2025
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Once-influential leftist factions—the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine—have been ground down by decades of arrests, exile, funding collapse, and irrelevance.—
Mohammed R. Mhawish,
New Yorker,
14 Oct. 2025
Noun
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The clapping served as an audible reminder of the Aztecs’ offensive inadequacies, and players visibly tightened as the clanked shots and errant passes mounted.—
Mark Zeigler,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
19 Oct. 2025
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Her win feels like evidence of our inadequacy rather than inspiration for our possibility.—
Essence,
Essence,
18 Oct. 2025
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“Meaninglessness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/meaninglessness. Accessed 27 Oct. 2025.
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