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Meanings of pointlessness in English

Total lack of meaning or ideas.

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Examples for "vacuity"
Examples for "vacuity"
1
The vacuity and the superfluity are thus partially compensated by each other.
Cratylus
2
They people the vacuity of Time, and make it green and worthy.
Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Fr...
3
A look of dull disappointment struggled with the vacuity of his face.
A Millionaire of Yesterday
4
The sheer vacuity of his mind might naturally slide into mesmeric sleep.
Phantom Fortune, a Novel
5
Pure Space, if it means anything, means absolute material emptiness and vacuity.
Essays Towards a Theory of Knowledge
1
Thirty years on I can now recognise the inanity of my question.
The Irish Times
2
The inanity of the question enraged even the pleasure-seekers at the back.
Psmith in the City
3
The ludicrous sublimity of such an ethical snarl reduced him to inanity.
We Can't Have Everything: A Novel
4
It does not consist of ingenuity limited, but merely of inanity expanded.
Alarms and Discursions
5
In fact, his physiognomy indicated the inanity of character which pervaded his life.
Guy Mannering, Or, the Astrologer — Volume 01
1
To say nothing of the inhumanity, the senselessness of duelling revolts me.
The Tragic Comedians: A Study in a Well-known Story — Volume 1
2
The senselessness of it was growing on him with his increased confidence.
The Triumph of John Kars: A Story of the Yukon
3
The groom ran away, and she put that down to native senselessness.
Rung Ho! A Novel
4
A moment later, the coals of the hearth crackled into senselessness.
James Potter and the Morrigan Web
5
It disgusted him-yetby its perverse senselessness it angered him too.
Warlord of Kor
1
Instead it ridicules the petty mindlessness of bureaucracy and office politics everywhere.
The Irish Times
2
I opted for Chinese, then sat back and enjoyed a state of blissful mindlessness.
Notes from a Small Island
3
Even Eden understood the necessity of mindlessness on some occasions.
Osprey island
4
To them, death is violence and miscalculation, mindlessness and cruelty.
Homicide: a year on the killing streets
5
For a moment, a marvellous, frontier moment, they allowed us to live in blissful mindlessness.
The Guardian
Usage of pointlessness in English
1
And that's where the pointlessness of this accessory starts to become clear.
Wired
2
What is striking about his move to City is its sheer pointlessness.
The Guardian
3
The Absurdity he identified is the ultimate pointlessness of life in general.
The Guardian
4
This series finale is right up there with Seinfeld's for pointlessness.
News.com.au
5
On the third attempt I am overwhelmed by the pointlessness of the exercise.
Number9Dream
6
This has the usual 3-D buildings, the pointlessness-and-click interface, the works.
Wired
7
Again, I guess my complaint is the pointlessness of this comparison.
Wired
8
First, climbers like to revel in the pointlessness of our endeavor.
Climbing Magazine
9
The coming crisis brings an eve-of-battle thrill to those who invented all this pointlessness.
The Guardian
10
If anything, it highlights the pointlessness of individual hunts in search of historical absolution.
The Irish Times
11
At this level it does seem to be a rather circular piece of pointlessness.
The Guardian
12
I struggled, despairing about the powerlessness, and perhaps pointlessness, of an op-ed or essay.
The Guardian
13
But this pointlessness is exactly the point: Political correctness makes debate irrelevant and frequently impossible.
NY Magazine
14
But what happened to Rob Elliot on Tuesday night demonstrates the pointlessness of premature prognostication.
The Irish Times
15
Derided for its pointlessness upon launch, it is actually packed wall to wall with comfort food.
The Guardian
16
I couldn't help feeling a kind of helpless and dispiriting pointlessness in what I was doing.
A walk in the woods: rediscovering america on the appalachian tr...
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Pointlessness through the time