1
as in futility
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as in pointlessness
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for uselessness
Noun
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Reading through Carnot’s book a few decades later, in 1865, the German physicist Rudolf Clausius coined a term for the proportion of energy that’s locked up in futility.—
Zack Savitsky,
Quanta Magazine,
13 Dec. 2024 -
Filmmakers have been telling comparable stories for years — see Liz Garbus and Jonathan Stack’s The Farm: Angola, USA, or Ava DuVernay’s 13th, among many others — and the futility is baked in.—
Daniel Fienberg,
The Hollywood Reporter,
29 Jan. 2025
Noun
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The compositions prioritize headspace for the sky to take over the frame during exterior shots, communicating Rico’s feeling of insignificance against the immensity of what burdens him.—
Carlos Aguilar,
Variety,
27 Jan. 2025
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But the film makes its own insignificance a virtue, then uses that to slip us into an unexpectedly moving story.—
Alison Willmore,
Vulture,
8 Jan. 2025
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The conflict is a sustained demonstration of war’s essential inanity.—
George Packer,
The Atlantic,
5 Feb. 2025
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Laugh at these inanities, but these theories often serve an end, especially on the right: to help politicians and movements score points with their base.—
Steven Zeitchik,
The Hollywood Reporter,
3 Sep. 2019
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“Uselessness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/uselessness. Accessed 16 Feb. 2025.
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