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What does futility mean?

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Noun
  1. (uncountable) The quality of being futile or useless.
  2. (countable) Something, especially an act, that is futile.
  3. (uncountable) Unimportance.
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The narrator then steps in to comment on the pointlessness and futility of life on earth before the credits roll.
The play is, of course, about incomprehensibility and the total futility of all forms of human intercourse.
Before considering Mr Dennys' attack on the judgment I express my dismay at the futility of the litigation.
Within days they were as gaping as they had ever been, and this exercise in futility simply amounts to a scandalous waste of money.
The point is simply the implosion of the system, the swarming strangeness of others, the futility of organizing inquiry.
Primarily, however, the drama is about yearning and the futility of attempting to suppress human emotion.

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