futility

Meaning

  1. (uncountable, usually) The quality of being futile or useless.
  2. (countable, usually) Something, especially an act, that is futile.
  3. (uncountable, usually) Unimportance.

Frequency

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Etymology

From Latin fūtilitās (“worthlessness, futility”). By surface analysis, futile + -ity.

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