meaninglessness

English

Etymology

From meaningless +‎ -ness.

Pronunciation

• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈminɪŋlɪsnɪs/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

meaninglessness (usually uncountable, plural meaninglessnesses)

1. (uncountable) The state of lacking meaning; the quality of being meaningless.

   Coordinate terms: randomness, stochasticity

   Near-synonyms: pointlessness, purposelessness, uselessness

2. (countable) Anything that is meaningless.

   all the little meaninglessnesses of human existence

Translations

state of lacking meaning

Dutch: zinloosheid (nl) f Esperanto: sensignifeco Finnish: merkityksettömyys (fi) French: futilité (fr) f, absurdité (fr) f German: Bedeutungslosigkeit (de) f, Sinnlosigkeit (de) f Hungarian: értelmetlenség (hu) Japanese: 無意味 (ja) (むいみ, muimi) Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: bêwatetî (ku) f Latvian: bezjēdzība f, bezjēdzīgums m Norwegian: Bokmål: meningsløshet m or f Nynorsk: meiningsløyse f Polish: bezsensowność (pl) Spanish: sinsentido Swedish: meningslöshet (sv) c Turkish: anlamsızlık (tr), manasızlık (tr)