futility means the quality of being futile or useless. Lexicurio rates it Distinctive — a strength score of 67 out of 100.
futility is pronounced /fjuːˈtɪlɪti/.
noun
- The quality of being futile or useless.“an exercise of futility”
- Something, especially an act, that is futile.“But fashion and authority apart, and bringing Plato to the test of reason, take from him, his sophisms, futilities, and incomprehensibilities, and what remains?”
- Unimportance.“Her empty chatter, her futility, her childish coquetry and frivolity—such light wares could hardly be the whole substance of any woman’s being; […]”