meaninglessness

noun

as in pointlessness

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Recent Examples of meaninglessness Arendt, evidently depressed and convinced of life’s meaninglessness, found his teaching electrifying. — David Denby, New Yorker, 10 Aug. 2026 Like emo in the early to mid ’00s, the genre marker has been muddied to the point of near meaninglessness. — Brendan Menapace, SPIN, 3 Aug. 2026 The game’s meaninglessness didn’t matter to the raucous sellout crowd that packed SoFi Stadium. — Greg Beacham, Chicago Tribune, 26 June 2026 The game's meaninglessness didn't matter to the raucous sellout crowd that packed SoFi Stadium — dubbed Los Angeles Stadium by FIFA for the World Cup. — CBS News, 26 June 2026 Indeed, the game’s meaninglessness didn’t matter to the raucous sellout crowd that packed SoFi Stadium. — ABC News, 25 June 2026 With its absence comes abject horror, meaninglessness, and a total loss of humanity. — Jenny Odell, Longreads, 2 June 2026 The irony and meaninglessness of the carnage rankles, especially when Ulysses is presented as such a nice guy who is prone to de-escalation in his day-to-day work. — Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2026 The irony and meaninglessness of the violence rankles, especially when Ulysses is presented as such a nice guy who is prone to de-escalation and community care in his day-to-day work. — Katie Walsh, Boston Herald, 17 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for meaninglessness
  1. pointlessness
  2. irrelevance
  3. inapplicability
  4. inadequacy
  5. inadmissibility
  6. wrongness
Noun
  • The battle that follows — a muddy and mean scrum — is even more ghastly, partly for its utter pointlessness.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 17 June 2026
  • Such expeditions can turn into a Buddhistic exercise in enlightened pointlessness.
    — Alex Ross, New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2025
Definition of pointlessness
Noun
  • Even though Brian Daboll took the Giants back to the postseason and became Coach of the Year in the process, the Giants have fallen down since, slogging their way to irrelevance.
    — Mike Lupica, New York Daily News, 13 Aug. 2026
  • Before the whole scene of domestic bliss is cut short, Cruz and Josie discuss their looming irrelevance as human foot soldiers in a future of wars fought by machines, finding brief solace in each other’s out-of-uniform bodies.
    — Andy Andersen, Vulture, 9 Aug. 2026
Definition of irrelevance
Noun
  • Defendants rely on cases that, ironically, only confirm the inapplicability of the § 1252(f)(1) bar here.
    — New York Times, New York Times, 2 Dec. 2025
Definition of inapplicability
Noun
  • Experts at Black Hat highlighted the challenge of distinguishing good from bad agent actions and the inadequacy of current identity management, which relies on human accountability and speed.
    — Ron Schmelzer, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026
  • Then there’s social jealousy, like if your daughter didn’t get invited to a sleepover, which causes feelings of insecurity or inadequacy.
    — Jenna Autuori-Dedic, Parents, 4 Aug. 2026
Definition of inadequacy
Noun
  • The Ghanaian government statement said it was informed that Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) made the decision on grounds of inadmissibility under paragraph A36(1)(c) of Canada’s Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (IRPA).
    — Jessica Hopkins, New York Times, 13 June 2026
  • Only cash assistance for income maintenance or long-term institutional care is considered when determining public-charge inadmissibility.
    — Billal Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2025
Definition of inadmissibility
Noun
  • But for less intimate relationships, the perception of wrongness was the key predictor of negative feelings and avoidance.
    — Andras Molnar, The Conversation, 13 Aug. 2026
  • Hidden, almost, in the center of the exhibition are a few of Mendieta’s early paintings from the late 1960s and early 1970s, which have a jarring feeling of wrongness about them.
    — Eliza Goodpasture, ARTnews.com, 15 July 2026
Definition of wrongness

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“Meaninglessness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/meaninglessness. Accessed 19 Aug. 2026.

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