loss of meaning
Significance fades away
Loss of meaning describes the experience of finding life, work, or existence devoid of purpose or significance.
The phrase appears in philosophical and psychological contexts discussing existential crises, depression, or disillusionment: After his retirement, he struggled with a profound loss of meaning.
In linguistics, it can describe semantic bleaching—when a word loses specificity through overuse.
- nihilismRejection of objective meaning
- emptinessAbsence of substance
- spiritual voidAbsence of transcendent meaning
- absurdityWildly illogical quality
- voidWithout legal effect
what's the point · alienation · despair · existential · existential crisis · hollow · purposeless · going through the motions · anomie · disillusionment · dark night of the soul · numbness · futility · disconnection · empty inside · apathy · ennui · dread
- existential dreadexistential dread, existential angst, existential anxiety, existential crisis, dread
- modernismPicasso, Matisse, Duchamp, Braque, Kandinsky
loss of meaningenrichment
Improvement through addition
meaning-making · meaningfulness · significance · resonance · depth
loss of meaningfulfillment
State of achieved purpose
self-actualization · meaningfulness · spiritual awakening · enlightenment · ikigai
loss, lose, loses, losing, loser, losers, meaning, mean, means