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Futility


FUTIL'ITY, noun Talkativeness; loquaciousness; loquacity. [In this sense, not now used.]

1. Triflingness; unimportance; want of weight or effect; as, to expose the futility of arguments.

2. The quality of producing no valuable effect, or of coming to nothing; as the futility of measures or schemes.