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DEFINITIONS OF: meaninglessness

n the quality of having no value or significance

“he resented the meaninglessness of the tasks they assigned him”

Antonyms:: meaningfulness
the quality of having great value or significance

Types:: inanity, mindlessness, pointlessness, senselessness, vacuity
total lack of meaning or ideas; aimlessness, purposelessness
the quality of lacking any definite purpose

Type of:: insignificance
the quality of having little or no significance

n a message that seems to convey no meaning

Synonyms:: bunk, hokum, nonsense, nonsensicality

Types:: show 24 types...; hide 24 types...; absurdity, absurdness, ridiculousness
a message whose content is at variance with reason; amphigory, nonsense verse
nonsensical writing (usually verse); balderdash, fiddle-faddle, piffle
trivial nonsense; buzzword, cant
stock phrases that have become nonsense through endless repetition; cobblers
nonsense; crock
nonsense; foolish talk; fa la, fal la
meaningless syllables in the refrain of a partsong; gibber, gibberish
unintelligible talking; incoherence, incoherency, unintelligibility
nonsense that is simply incoherent and unintelligible; jabberwocky
nonsensical language (according to Lewis Carroll); flummery, mummery
meaningless ceremonies and flattery; empty talk, empty words, hot air, palaver, rhetoric
loud and confused and empty talk; rigamarole, rigmarole
a set of confused and meaningless statements; schmegegge, shmegegge
(Yiddish) baloney; hot air; nonsense; hooey, poppycock, stuff, stuff and nonsense
senseless talk; baloney, bilgewater, boloney, bosh, drool, humbug, taradiddle, tarradiddle, tommyrot, tosh, twaddle
pretentious or silly talk or writing; word salad
jumble of incoherent speech as sometimes heard in schizophrenia; abracadabra
gibberish and nonsense; babble, babbling, lallation
gibberish resembling the sounds of a baby; blather, blatherskite
foolish gibberish; double Dutch
an incomprehensible talk; double talk
deliberately unintelligible gibberish; gabble, jabber, jabbering
rapid and indistinct speech; mumbo jumbo
language or ritual causing, or intending to cause, confusion

Type of:: content, message, subject matter, substance
what a communication that is about something is about

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