meaninglessness (HyperDic hyper-dictionary)

English > 2 senses of the word *meaninglessness*:
NOUN	communication	meaninglessness, nonsense, bunk, nonsensicality, hokum	a message that seems to convey no meaning / meaning
NOUN	attribute	meaninglessness	the quality of having no value or significance

English > *meaninglessness*: 2 senses > noun 1, communication
Meaning	A message that seems to convey no meaning / meaning.
Synonyms	nonsense, bunk, nonsensicality, hokum
Narrower	absurdity, absurdness, ridiculousness	A message whose content is at variance with reason
	amphigory, nonsense verse	Nonsensical writing (usually verse)
	balderdash, fiddle-faddle, piffle	Trivial nonsense
	baloney, boloney, bilgewater, bosh, drool, humbug, taradiddle, tarradiddle, tommyrot, tosh, twaddle	pretentious or silly talk or writing
	buzzword, cant	Stock phrases that have become nonsense through endless repetition
	cobblers	nonsense
	crock	nonsense
	fa la, fal la	meaningless syllables in the refrain of a partsong
	gibberish, gibber	unintelligible talking
	incoherence, incoherency, unintelligibility	nonsense that is simply incoherent and unintelligible
	jabberwocky	Nonsensical language (according to Lewis Carroll)
	mummery, flummery	meaningless ceremonies and flattery
	palaver, hot air, empty words, empty talk, rhetoric	Loud and confused and empty talk
	rigmarole, rigamarole	A set of confused and meaningless statements
	shmegegge, schmegegge	(Yiddish) baloney
	stuff, stuff and nonsense, hooey, poppycock	Senseless talk
Broader	message, content, subject matter, substance	What a communication that is about something is about
Spanish	despropósito, disparate, hokum, nonsense, sinsentido, tontería
Catalan	bajanada, despropòsit, disbarat, hokum
Adjectives	meaningless	having no meaning / meaning or direction or purpose

English > *meaninglessness*: 2 senses > noun 2, attribute
Meaning	The quality of having no value or significance.
Example	"he resented the meaninglessness of the tasks they assigned him"
Narrower	inanity, senselessness, mindlessness, vacuity, pointlessness	Total lack of meaning / meaning or ideas
Narrower	purposelessness, aimlessness	The quality of lacking any definite purpose
Broader	insignificance	The quality of having little or no significance
Opposite	meaningfulness	The quality of having great value or significance

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