meaninglessness
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- noun
- /ˈmiːnɪŋləsnəs/
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sin sentido
- The constant repetition of daily tasks can create a sense of meaninglessness that weighs heavily on one's spirit.
- meaninglessness and normlessness
- meaninglessness and despair
- powerlessness and meaninglessness
How do you avoid normlessness and meaninglessness within an anarchistic society?
- How do you avoid normlessness and meaninglessness within an anarchistic society?
- How do you put up with this onslaught of meaninglessness?
- This is a huge problem, but a small part of the sort of male sense of meaninglessness that certainly is sweeping across the West.
- Like Ernest Becker says, there's three ways we respond to the terror of of meaninglessness in the face of mortality.
- And I think, you know, depression at its core is a sense of meaninglessness, a sense of like none of your actions matter.
- And for whatever reason, from my earliest age, I was traumatized with a sense of meaninglessness.
- And it does so in order to deal with the meaninglessness and the suffering and the weariness that comes with being a living thing.
- Faced with the meaninglessness of it all, why not just kill yourself?
- What gets signified is nonsense is not quite so simple as pure meaninglessness or valuelessness.
- Somehow, even the immense absurdity and and at times meaninglessness of it all, it's pretty fun.
- But also suffer from a feeling of meaninglessness, of going to a dark place, that depression can take you.
- For Britain, it's meaninglessness is to meaningless, it has no program or focus, and it's unsustainable.
Examples
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And I also just increasingly want to carve out a space for meaninglessness, purposelessness.
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Thoughts of being abandoned without suitable support, real or imagined, promote powerlessness and meaninglessness, with effects as noted above.
Academic text (2002) -
So you know, when you read his book, you get a sense of meaninglessness or loss of purpose.
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To know that everything I do just turns into meaninglessness.
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But also suffer from a feeling of meaninglessness, of going to a dark place, that depression can take you.
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This is a huge problem, but a small part of the sort of male sense of meaninglessness that certainly is sweeping across the West.
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You can have oblivion, you can have meaninglessness, if you want it.
Fiction book (1999) -
I think it is clear that, from this perspective, meaninglessness is a matter of degree and essentially subjective.
Academic text (1992) -
Leonard says it's the poignancy of life, and not only do we have to embrace its meaninglessness but celebrate life because it has no meaning.
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Which element we think outweighs the other, whether meaninglessness or meaning, is a matter of temperament.
Blog text (15)
Synonyms
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Words or ideas that do not make sense
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5.3
A feeling that life has no meaning
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4.3
A state in which something does not help or have value
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4.3
A feeling of emptiness with no thoughts or emotion
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6.3
A feeling that you have no value or importance
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6.2
A state when something has no purpose or use
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7.0
A state of having no meaning or purpose
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7.1
An empty feeling inside a person or their words
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A lack of thought or care in what someone does
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7.0
A lack of clear purpose or direction
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The feeling of having no clear goal or direction
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A lack of ideas or meaning
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A state of being empty of meaning and thought
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A thing like time or money that is completely useless and gives no benefit
A state when something has no clear meaning
An idea or statement that has no meaning
A feeling of having no clear purpose or aim
Having no real result or value
A situation in which something has no value
A state of being unimportant with no real effect
Antonyms
How Meaningful
Surface Forms
Morphology
meaninglessness = meaningless + ness (transparent) = mean + ing + less + ness
The word is formed regularly from the adjective 'meaningless' by adding '-ness', and the meaning follows directly from the base.
Etymology
The word meaninglessness is made from the simple word meaning, which is what something means, plus the ending -less meaning 'without' and the ending -ness that makes a word into a 'state'. So it literally means 'the state of being without meaning', which is why it describes having no value or purpose.