futility
Meaning
- (uncountable, usually) The quality of being futile or useless.
- (countable, usually) Something, especially an act, that is futile.
- (uncountable, usually) Unimportance.
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Etymology
From Latin fūtilitās (“worthlessness, futility”). By surface analysis, futile + -ity.
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