English noun: meaninglessness |
| 1. | meaninglessness (communication) a message that seems to convey no meaning |
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| Synonyms | bunk, hokum, nonsense, nonsensicality |
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| Broader (hypernym) | content, message, subject matter, substance |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | absurdity, absurdness, amphigory, balderdash, 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, mummery, nonsense verse, palaver, piffle, poppycock, rhetoric, ridiculousness, rigamarole, rigmarole, schmegegge, shmegegge, stuff, stuff and nonsense, taradiddle, tarradiddle, tommyrot, tosh, twaddle, unintelligibility |
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| 2. | meaninglessness (attribute) the quality of having no value or significance |
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| Samples | He resented the meaninglessness of the tasks they assigned him.
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| Broader (hypernym) | insignificance |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | aimlessness, inanity, mindlessness, pointlessness, purposelessness, senselessness, vacuity |
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| Antonyms | meaningfulness |
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