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1. futility
noun. ['fjuːˈtɪləti'] uselessness as a consequence of having no practical result.
Synonyms
Antonyms
Etymology
- -ity (English)
- -ité (French)
- futile (English)
- futilis (Latin)
Rhymes with Futility
- comprehensibility
- overwhelmability
- irresponsibility
- responsibility
- inaccessibility
- susceptibility
- deductibility
- compatibility
- combinability
- acceptability
- palatability
- invisibility
- flexibility
- electability
- applicability
- affordability
- admissibility
- adaptability
- reliability
- probability
- malleability
- irritability
- availability
- volatility
- versatility
- possibility
- legibility
- feasibility
- capability
- amiability
Sentences with futility
1. Noun, singular or mass
He described the futility of placing higher value on the world than on its creator.
Quotes about futility
1. You can't make everybody love you. It's an exercise in futility, and it's probably not even a good idea to try.
- Robert Crumb
2. Anything beyond the limits and grasp of the human mind is either illusion or futility; and because your god having to be one or the other of the two, in the first instance I should be mad to believe in him, and in the second a fool.
- Marquis de Sade
3. The futility of action does not absolve one from the failure to act. -
- Janette Turner Hospital, The Last Magician
