MEANINGLESSNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does meaninglessness mean? 

• MEANINGLESSNESS (noun)
  The noun MEANINGLESSNESS has 2 senses:

1. a message that seems to convey no meaning

2. the quality of having no value or significance

  Familiarity information: MEANINGLESSNESS used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MEANINGLESSNESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A message that seems to convey no meaning

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

bunk; hokum; meaninglessness; nonsense; nonsensicality

Hypernyms ("meaninglessness" is a kind of...):

content; message; subject matter; substance (what a communication that is about something is about)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "meaninglessness"):

baloney; bilgewater; boloney; bosh; drool; humbug; taradiddle; tarradiddle; tommyrot; tosh; twaddle (pretentious or silly talk or writing)

hooey; poppycock; stuff; stuff and nonsense (senseless talk)

schmegegge; shmegegge ((Yiddish) baloney; hot air; nonsense)

rigamarole; rigmarole (a set of confused and meaningless statements)

empty talk; empty words; hot air; palaver; rhetoric (loud and confused and empty talk)

flummery; mummery (meaningless ceremonies and flattery)

jabberwocky (nonsensical language (according to Lewis Carroll))

incoherence; incoherency; unintelligibility (nonsense that is simply incoherent and unintelligible)

gibber; gibberish (unintelligible talking)

fa la; fal la (meaningless syllables in the refrain of a partsong)

crock (nonsense; foolish talk)

cobblers (nonsense)

buzzword; cant (stock phrases that have become nonsense through endless repetition)

balderdash; fiddle-faddle; piffle (trivial nonsense)

amphigory; nonsense verse (nonsensical writing (usually verse))

absurdity; absurdness; ridiculousness (a message whose content is at variance with reason)

Derivation:

meaningless (having no meaning or direction or purpose)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The quality of having no value or significance

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Context example:

he resented the meaninglessness of the tasks they assigned him

Hypernyms ("meaninglessness" is a kind of...):

insignificance (the quality of having little or no significance)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "meaninglessness"):

aimlessness; purposelessness (the quality of lacking any definite purpose)

inanity; mindlessness; pointlessness; senselessness; vacuity (total lack of meaning or ideas)

Antonym:

meaningfulness (the quality of having great value or significance)