meaninglessness
Absence of purpose
Meaninglessness is the quality of lacking meaning, purpose, or significance.
The word appears in philosophical discussions of existence and in everyday complaints about futile activity: the meaninglessness of bureaucratic paperwork, confronting the meaninglessness of life.
It can describe language that fails to communicate (the meaninglessness of the jargon) or actions that seem pointless.
Frivolous, absurd behavior
- trivialityUnimportant small matter
- superficialityAbsence of meaningful depth
- frivolousnessLack of due seriousness
- banalityTiresome lack of originality
triteness · shallowness · pettiness · inanity · inconsequence · fatuity · vapidity · fluff
State of being empty inside
- vacuityUtter emptiness or blankness
- barrennessInability to bear fruit
- blanknessState of being empty
- voidWithout legal effect
unfulfillment · purposelessness · desolation · soullessness · lifelessness · vacancy · sterility · numbness
State of lacking meaning
- uselessnessLack of practical value
- hopelessnessState without hope
- fruitlessnessLack of productive outcome
- worthlessnessLack of any value
ineffectiveness · purposelessness · vanity · triviality · insignificance · unproductiveness · idleness · redundancy
Philosophy stressing self-created meaning
- pessimismExpecting unfavorable outcomes
- skepticismDisposition toward doubt
- cynicismDistrust of human sincerity
- negationDenial or cancellation
nothingness · denial · despair · disbelief · fatalism · absurdism · Nietzsche · Camus
Without legal effect
- abyssImmeasurably profound depth
- nothingnessComplete absence of existence
- oblivionComplete erasure from memory
- infinityUnlimited extent or quantity
chaos · darkness · silence · vastness · entropy · heat death · pale blue dot · existential dread
Without coherent meaning
- illogicalContrary to valid reasoning
- preposterousCompletely contrary to reason
- ludicrousAbsurdly unreasonable or inappropriate
- surrealDreamlike and strange
bizarre · irrational · paradoxical · incongruous · ridiculous · senseless · incoherent · unreasonable
silliness
Frivolous, absurd behavior
- trivialityUnimportant small matter
- superficialityAbsence of meaningful depth
- frivolousnessLack of due seriousness
banality · triteness · shallowness · pettiness · inanity · inconsequence · fatuity · vapidity · fluff · drivel
hollowness
State of being empty inside
- vacuityUtter emptiness or blankness
- barrennessInability to bear fruit
- blanknessState of being empty
void · unfulfillment · purposelessness · desolation · soullessness · lifelessness · vacancy · sterility · numbness · ennui
pointlessness
State of lacking meaning
- uselessnessLack of practical value
- hopelessnessState without hope
- fruitlessnessLack of productive outcome
worthlessness · ineffectiveness · purposelessness · vanity · triviality · insignificance · unproductiveness · idleness · redundancy · dead end
existentialism
Philosophy stressing self-created meaning
- pessimismExpecting unfavorable outcomes
- skepticismDisposition toward doubt
- cynicismDistrust of human sincerity
negation · nothingness · denial · despair · disbelief · fatalism · absurdism · Nietzsche · Camus · Sartre
void
Without legal effect
- abyssImmeasurably profound depth
- nothingnessComplete absence of existence
- oblivionComplete erasure from memory
infinity · chaos · darkness · silence · vastness · entropy · heat death · pale blue dot · existential dread
nonsensical
Without coherent meaning
- illogicalContrary to valid reasoning
- preposterousCompletely contrary to reason
- ludicrousAbsurdly unreasonable or inappropriate
surreal · bizarre · irrational · paradoxical · incongruous · ridiculous · senseless · incoherent · unreasonable · pointless
- futilityfutile, futility, in vain, pointlessness, vain
- nonsensenonsense, absurd, gibberish, gobbledegook, gobbledygook
- absurdist comedyabsurdity, non sequitur, nonsense, paradox, incongruity
- Absurdist WorksWaiting for Godot, Rhinoceros, Happy Days, Sisyphean task, Catch-22
- existential dreadexistential dread, existential angst, existential anxiety, existential crisis, dread
- existentialismexistence, authenticity, existential angst, existential crisis, angst
meaninglessnessmeaningfulness
Quality of having purpose
meaning · significance · sense · intelligibility · coherence
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What something signifies
purpose · meaningfulness · significance · purposefulness · teleology
meaninglessnesssignificance
Quality of mattering
importance · consequence · meaningfulness · relevance · momentousness
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