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How to pronounce meaninglessness in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms bunk, hokum, nonsense, nonsensicality
Type of content, substance, message, subject matter
Has types baloney, bilgewater, boloney, bosh, buzzword, cant, cobblers, crock, drool, empty talk, empty words, fa la, fal la, fiddle-faddle, flummery, gibber, gibberish, hooey, hot air, humbug, incoherence, incoherency, jabberwocky, rigmarole, absurdness, amphigory, balderdash, stuff, stuff and nonsense, taradiddle, tarradiddle, tommyrot, tosh, twaddle, unintelligibility, mummery, nonsense verse, palaver, piffle, poppycock, rhetoric, ridiculousness, rigamarole, absurdity, schmegegge, shmegegge
Derivation meaningless
Type Words
Type of insignificance
Has types mindlessness, purposelessness, vacuity, senselessness, inanity, pointlessness, aimlessness


he resented the meaninglessness of the tasks they assigned him.

Examples of meaninglessness

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Some inaugural addresses were lost in wordy flights of orotund meaninglessness.
From the suntimes.com
This award was premature, myopic and reduces this distinction to meaninglessness.
From the time.com
The future is a horizon-less vista of gloom, dread, monotony and meaninglessness.
From the blogs.psychcentral.com
Others observe suffering and see only irrational futility and meaninglessness.
From the latimes.com
Year after year, I began to voice my concerns about the meaninglessness of it all.
From the techcrunch.com
Ironically, it was dadaism, which purported to prize meaninglessness over meaning.
From the time.com
Your award was premature and myopic and reduces the distinction to meaninglessness.
From the time.com
If you want your message garbled to meaninglessness, give the story to a journalist.
From the forbes.com
Alas, I feel I've now contributed to this meaninglessness by being bothered to comment.
From the economist.com
More examples
  • Nonsense: a message that seems to convey no meaning
  • The quality of having no value or significance; "he resented the meaninglessness of the tasks they assigned him"
  • (meaningless) having no meaning or direction or purpose; "a meaningless endeavor"; "a meaningless life"; "a verbose but meaningless explanation"
  • In existentialism, meaning is understood as the worth of life. Meaning in existentialism is unlike typical conceptions of "the meaning of life", because it is descriptive. Due to the method of existentialism, prescriptive or declarative statements about meaning are unjustified. ...
  • (Meaningless (album)) Meaningless is singer-songwriter Jon Brion's 2001 debut solo album. Initially slated for release on Lava Records, the album was ultimately released independently by Brion on his own "Straight to Cut-Out" label, sold through his website and CD Baby.
  • (Meaningless (Mnemic song)) Passenger is the third album by the Danish industrial metal band Mnemic, and is the first to feature vocalist Guillaume Bideau (formerly of Scarve).
  • Something is meaningless if it is nonsense, like "XH$%^IE". Don't say that a claim is meaningless if all you mean is that it is false.