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Definition of Futility
Futility
The quality of being talkative; talkativeness; loquaciousness; loquacity.

The quality of producing no valuable effect, or of coming to nothing; uselessness.

Related Definitions:
Being, Coming, Effect, Loquaciousness, Loquacity, No, Nothing, Of, Or, Producing, Quality, Talkative, The, To, Valuable






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The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because it invites defeat. It involves an emotional catharsis, but it must be followed by a sense of futility.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Dusting is a good example of the futility of trying to put things right. As soon as you dust, the fact of your next dusting has already been established.
George Carlin

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
H. G. Wells

Since all life is futility, then the decision to exist must be the most irrational of all.
Emile M. Cioran

So, it becomes an exercise in futility if you write something that does not express the film as the director wishes. It's still their ball game. It's their show. I think any successful composer learns how to dance around the director's impulses.
Danny Elfman

There is an increasingly pervasive sense not only of failure, but of futility. The legislative process has become a cruel shell game and the service system has become a bureaucratic maze, inefficient, incomprehensible, and inaccessible.
Elliot Richardson

Worry compounds the futility of being trapped on a dead-end street. Thinking opens new avenues.
Cullen Hightower

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it without a sense of ironic futility.
Errol Morris



Futility Translations
futility in German is Vergeblichkeit


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