Noun
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the quality of having no value or significance; "he resented the meaninglessness of the tasks they assigned him"
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meaningfulness the quality of having great value or significance
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insignificance the quality of having little or no significance
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inanity,
pointlessness,
senselessness,
mindlessness,
vacuity total lack of meaning or ideas
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a message that seems to convey no meaning
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nonsense,
bunk,
nonsensicality,
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subject matter,
message,
content,
substance a communication (usually brief) that is written or spoken or signaled; "he sent a three-word message"
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absurdness,
ridiculousness,
absurdity a ludicrous folly; "the crowd laughed at the absurdity of the clown's behavior"
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amphigory,
nonsense verse nonsensical writing (usually verse)
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balderdash,
fiddle-faddle,
piffle trivial nonsense
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buzzword,
cant stock phrases that have become nonsense through endless repetition
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cobblers a man's testicles (from Cockney rhyming slang: cobbler's awl rhymes with ball)
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crock an earthen jar (made of baked clay)
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fa la,
fal la meaningless syllables in the refrain of a partsong
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gibber,
gibberish unintelligible talking
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incoherence,
incoherency,
unintelligibility nonsense that is simply incoherent and unintelligible
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jabberwocky nonsensical language (according to Lewis Carroll)
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mummery,
flummery meaningless ceremonies and flattery
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empty talk,
empty words,
hot air,
palaver,
rhetoric air that has been heated and tends to rise
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rigamarole,
rigmarole a long and complicated and confusing procedure; "all that academic rigmarole was a waste of time"
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schmegegge,
shmegegge (Yiddish) baloney; hot air; nonsense
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hooey,
poppycock,
stuff and nonsense,
stuff miscellaneous unspecified objects; "the trunk was full of stuff"
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