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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

absurdity, aimlessness, bankruptcy, big deal, blank future, bleak outlook, bootlessness, counterproductiveness, counterproductivity, dead letter, defeat, emptiness, empty sound, failure, fatuity, fecklessness, flimsiness, foolishness, frivolity, frivolousness, fruitlessness, hollowness, hopelessness, idleness, ill success, impoliticalness, impoliticness, impossibility, impotence, inadvisability, inanity, inappropriateness, inaptitude, incongruity, inconvenience, inconveniency, ineffectiveness, ineffectuality, ineffectualness, inefficaciousness, inefficacy, ineptitude, inexpectation, inexpedience, inexpediency, infelicity, inopportuneness, insignificance, invalidity, levity, lightness, losing game, meaninglessness, mere noise, no go, no hope, noise, nonaccomplishment, nonsensicality, nonsuccess, not a prayer, nugacity, nullity, otiosity, phatic communion, pointlessness, profitlessness, purposelessness, rat race, senselessness, shallowness, silliness, slenderness, slightness, small hope, successlessness, superficiality, the absurd, triflingness, triteness, triviality, trivialness, undesirability, unfitness, unfittingness, unfortunateness, unhopefulness, unmeaningness, unmeetness, unproductiveness, unprofitability, unprofitableness, unseasonableness, unseemliness, unsignificancy, unsuccess, unsuccessfulness, unsuitability, untimeliness, unwiseness, uselessness, vacuity, valuelessness, vanity, vapidity, vicious circle, worthlessness, wrongness

Dictionary Results for futility:

1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

futility
    n 1: uselessness as a consequence of having no practical result

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Futility \Fu"til`i*ty\, n. [L. futilitas: cf. F. futilit['e].]
   1. The quality of being talkative; talkativeness;
      loquaciousness; loquacity. [Obs.]
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   2. The quality of producing no valuable effect, or of coming
      to nothing; uselessness.
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            The futility of this mode of philosophizing.
                                                  --Whewell.
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