futility

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

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.
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