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What is futility? by pink
May 25th, 2007 9:16 AM
futility
noun
Futility \Fu"til`i*ty\, n. [L. futilitas: cf. F. futilit['e].]
1. Uselessness, as a consequence of having no practical result
2. The quality of being talkative; talkativeness;
loquaciousness; loquacity. [Obs.]
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3. The quality of producing no valuable effect, or of coming
to nothing; uselessness.
[1913 Webster]
Etymology: 17c: from French futilité.
absurdity, aimlessness, bankruptcy, big deal, blank future, bleak outlook, bootlessness, counterproductiveness, counterproductivity, dead letter, defeat, emptiness, empty sound, failure, fatuity, fecklessness, flimsiness, foolishness, frivolity, frivolousness, fruitlessness, hollowness, hopelessness, idleness, ill success, impoliticalness, impoliticness, impossibility, impotence, inadvisability, inanity, inappropriateness, inaptitude, incongruity, inconvenience, inconveniency, ineffectiveness, ineffectuality, ineffectualness, inefficaciousness, inefficacy, ineptitude, inexpectation, inexpedience, inexpediency, infelicity, inopportuneness, insignificance, invalidity, levity, lightness, losing game, meaninglessness, mere noise, no go, no hope, noise,nonaccomplishment, nonsensicality, nonsuccess, not a prayer, nugacity, nullity, otiosity, phatic communion, pointlessness, profitlessness, purposelessness, rat race, senselessness, shallowness, silliness, slenderness, slightness, small hope, successlessness, superficiality, the absurd, triflingness, triteness, triviality, trivialness, undesirability, unfitness, unfortunateness, unhopefulness, unmeaningness, unmeetness, unproductiveness, unprofitability, unprofitableness,unseasonableness, unseemliness, unsignificancy, unsuccess, unsuccessfulness, unsuitability, untimeliness, unwiseness, uselessness, vacuity, valuelessness, vanity, vapidity,vicious circle, worthlessness, wrongness
An utter uselessness
going in circles
I.e. hampster running in a wheel, square wheels, putting a square peg in a round hole...pushing a ball up a never ending mountain, finding a needle in a haystack, trying for a cause already lost. ...my hampster trying to run in her wheel with no back legs...
having to give up...
The futility of trying to get my dad to like my boyfriend
noun
Futility \Fu"til`i*ty\, n. [L. futilitas: cf. F. futilit['e].]
1. Uselessness, as a consequence of having no practical result
2. The quality of being talkative; talkativeness;
loquaciousness; loquacity. [Obs.]
[1913 Webster]
3. The quality of producing no valuable effect, or of coming
to nothing; uselessness.
[1913 Webster]
Etymology: 17c: from French futilité.
absurdity, aimlessness, bankruptcy, big deal, blank future, bleak outlook, bootlessness, counterproductiveness, counterproductivity, dead letter, defeat, emptiness, empty sound, failure, fatuity, fecklessness, flimsiness, foolishness, frivolity, frivolousness, fruitlessness, hollowness, hopelessness, idleness, ill success, impoliticalness, impoliticness, impossibility, impotence, inadvisability, inanity, inappropriateness, inaptitude, incongruity, inconvenience, inconveniency, ineffectiveness, ineffectuality, ineffectualness, inefficaciousness, inefficacy, ineptitude, inexpectation, inexpedience, inexpediency, infelicity, inopportuneness, insignificance, invalidity, levity, lightness, losing game, meaninglessness, mere noise, no go, no hope, noise,nonaccomplishment, nonsensicality, nonsuccess, not a prayer, nugacity, nullity, otiosity, phatic communion, pointlessness, profitlessness, purposelessness, rat race, senselessness, shallowness, silliness, slenderness, slightness, small hope, successlessness, superficiality, the absurd, triflingness, triteness, triviality, trivialness, undesirability, unfitness, unfortunateness, unhopefulness, unmeaningness, unmeetness, unproductiveness, unprofitability, unprofitableness,unseasonableness, unseemliness, unsignificancy, unsuccess, unsuccessfulness, unsuitability, untimeliness, unwiseness, uselessness, vacuity, valuelessness, vanity, vapidity,vicious circle, worthlessness, wrongness
An utter uselessness
going in circles
I.e. hampster running in a wheel, square wheels, putting a square peg in a round hole...pushing a ball up a never ending mountain, finding a needle in a haystack, trying for a cause already lost. ...my hampster trying to run in her wheel with no back legs...
having to give up...
The futility of trying to get my dad to like my boyfriend
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posted by Møuse on May 25th, 2007 10:38 AM
Boy is this going to confuse anyone who joins sf0 at a later date and starts to read the backlogs.
Glasnost, the Age of Rubins.
IT DOES NOT MATTER HOW I INSULT YOU........EVERYTHING IS FUTILE
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