I thought "like money for a cat" was different than "like pearls before swine". I thought it was a tribute to the exemplary nature of the cat and the ultimate meaninglessness of the materialism of money.
Source: tatoeba (5887796)
Meaninglessness
//ˈminɪŋlɪsnɪs//
Synonyms for "meaninglessness" (66 found)
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Closest matches (14)
Strong matches (19)
Related words (33)
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19 translations across 15 languages.
Dutch
1 entries- zinloosheid noun (state of lacking meaning)
Esperanto
1 entries- sensignifeco noun (state of lacking meaning)
Finnish
1 entries- merkityksettömyys noun (state of lacking meaning)
French
2 entries- absurdité noun (state of lacking meaning)
- futilité noun (state of lacking meaning)
German
2 entries- Bedeutungslosigkeit noun (state of lacking meaning)
- Sinnlosigkeit noun (state of lacking meaning)
Hungarian
1 entries- értelmetlenség noun (state of lacking meaning)
Japanese
1 entries- 無意味 noun (state of lacking meaning)
Latvian
2 entries- bezjēdzība noun (state of lacking meaning)
- bezjēdzīgums noun (state of lacking meaning)
Northern Kurdish
1 entries- bêwatetî noun (state of lacking meaning)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- meningsløshet noun (state of lacking meaning)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- meiningsløyse noun (state of lacking meaning)
Polish
1 entries- bezsensowność noun (state of lacking meaning)
Spanish
1 entries- sinsentido noun (state of lacking meaning)
Swedish
1 entries- meningslöshet noun (state of lacking meaning)
Turkish
2 entries- anlamsızlık noun (state of lacking meaning)
- manasızlık noun (state of lacking meaning)
Sample sentences
4 total sentences available.
The meaninglessness of the word "woke" is illustrated by the fact that there are people who call feathered dinosaurs "woke."
Source: tatoeba (12994050)
Near-synonyms: pointlessness, purposelessness, uselessness
Source: wiktionary
all the little meaninglessnesses of human existence
Source: wiktionary
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