futility : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: futility	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for futility
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
futility n uselessness as a consequence of having no practical result
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Futility \Fu"til`ity\, n. [L. futilitas: cf. F. futilit[82].] 1. The quality of being talkative; talkativeness; loquaciousness; loquacity. [Obs.] 2. The quality of producing no valuable effect, or of coming to nothing; uselessness. The futility* of this mode of philosophizing. --Whewell.