meaninglessness

Meaninglessness is a quality of being hollow or lacking any significance. The meaninglessness of your sister's apology was obvious from the way she rolled her eyes.

Anything that lacks true meaning has the characteristic of meaninglessness. Some philosophers have written extensively about the meaninglessness of life, while your best friend might complain frequently about the meaninglessness of algebra. Both statements imply a lack of significance. You can also use this noun for things that are unintelligible to you: "I don't read French, so I was frustrated by the meaninglessness of the words on the menu at that new café."

Definitions of meaninglessness

1. noun

   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
2. noun

   a message that seems to convey no meaning
   synonyms: bunk, hokum, nonsense, nonsensicality

   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