unmeaningnessn.
/(ˌ)ʌnˈmiːnɪŋnᵻs/, U.S. /ˌənˈminɪŋnᵻs/ Lack of meaning, purpose, or intention; meaninglessness. Also as a count noun: something which is meaningless.
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the mind > will > intention > unintentional or unplanned character > [noun] > unintentional or involuntary quality
involuntariness1649
unintentness1670
indeliberateness1681
unmeaningness1728
unintentionality1780
unwittingness1873
the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > [noun]
insolidity1578
emptiness1579
insignificancy1651
no-meaning1672
insignificance1754
inexpression1796
inexpressiveness1815
vacuousness1816
unmeaningness1825
unmeaning1839
pointlessness1845
non-significance1846
meaninglessness1853
unsuggestiveness1858
unexpressiveness1885
nonsense1942
the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > [noun] > instance of
non-significant1605
nonsense1650
insignificancy1651
mean-nothing1654
insignificant1816
unmeaningness1864
phlizz1889
small fry1893
1728 Polly Peachum's Jests 9 The great Number of Addresses sent to Richard Cromwell..and to King James II. are Proofs of the Unmeaningness and little Sincerity of them.
1796 F. Burney Camilla II. iii. i. 13 She perceived her two little sprigs..under the feet of Indiana, who, with apparent unmeaningness..had trampled upon them both.
1825 S. T. Coleridge Aids Refl. 391 The utter emptiness and unmeaningness of the vaunted Mechanico-corpuscular Philosophy.
1864 E. B. Pusey Daniel iv. 189 The unmeaningnesses, which they have brought into the prophecy, cannot be its meaning.
1921 W. J. Locke Mountebank xvi. 215 His life's unmeaningness overwhelmed him.
1999 J. G. A. Pocock Barbarism & Relig. II. viii. 122 Voltaire certainly considers all theology devoid of meaning, but the most disastrous story he has to tell is that of how this unmeaningness triumphed over civil reason.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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