futility

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Noun

futility (uncountable)

1. (uncountable) The quality of being futile or useless.

   His taking the bar exam for a third time was pure futility.

2. (countable) Something, especially an act, that is futile.
   • 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 3, chapter XIII, Democracy

     No man oppresses thee, can bid thee fetch or carry, come or go, without reason shewn. […] No man, wiser, unwiser, can make thee come or go: but thy own futilities, bewilderments, thy false appetites for Money, Windsor Georges and such like?

3. (uncountable) Unimportance.

Translations

• French: futilité
• German: Sinnlosigkeit, Vergeblichkeit
• Italian: futilità
• Portuguese: futilidade
• Russian: тще́тность
• Spanish: futilidad

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