meaninglessness

noun

1. a message that seems to convey no meaning

• Syn: ↑nonsense, ↑bunk, ↑nonsensicality, ↑hokum

• Derivationally related forms: ↑meaningless, ↑nonsensical (for: ↑nonsensicality)

• Hypernyms: ↑message, ↑content, ↑subject matter, ↑substance

• Hyponyms:

↑absurdity, ↑absurdness, ↑ridiculousness, ↑amphigory, ↑nonsense verse, ↑balderdash, ↑fiddle-faddle, ↑piffle, ↑buzzword, ↑cant, ↑cobblers, ↑crock, ↑fa la, ↑fal la, ↑gibberish, ↑gibber, ↑incoherence, ↑incoherency, ↑unintelligibility, ↑jabberwocky, ↑mummery, ↑flummery, ↑palaver, ↑hot air, ↑empty words, ↑empty talk, ↑rhetoric, ↑rigmarole, ↑rigamarole, ↑shmegegge, ↑schmegegge, ↑stuff, ↑stuff and nonsense, ↑hooey, ↑poppycock, ↑baloney, ↑boloney, ↑bilgewater, ↑bosh, ↑drool, ↑humbug, ↑taradiddle, ↑tarradiddle, ↑tommyrot, ↑tosh, ↑twaddle

2. the quality of having no value or significance

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he resented the meaninglessness of the tasks they assigned him

• Ant: ↑meaningfulness

• Hypernyms: ↑insignificance

• Hyponyms:

↑inanity, ↑senselessness, ↑mindlessness, ↑vacuity, ↑pointlessness, ↑purposelessness, ↑aimlessness