noun ·Uncommon ·College level

Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   The lack of meaning, purpose, or ideas; the characteristic or condition of being pointless. countable

   "Near-synonyms: purposelessness, meaninglessness, uselessness"

2. 2
   total lack of meaning or ideas wordnet
3. 3
   The quality of not mentioning points. uncountable

Synonyms

All synonyms

inanityabsurdityaimlessnessariditybarrennessbloodlessness

Example

More examples

"Amidst the chaos, he instantly realized the pointlessness of it all."

Etymology

From pointless + -ness.

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.