Meaninglessness

Definitions: Meaninglessness

Meaninglessness

Noun

1. A message that seems to convey no meaning.

2. The quality of having great value or significance; "he resented the meaninglessness of the tasks they assigned him".

Synonyms within Context: Meaninglessness

Commercial Usage: Meaninglessness

Domain	Title
Books	Crises in Modern Thought: Solutions to the Problem of Meaninglessness (reference) Mission and Meaninglessness (reference) The Banalization of Nihilism: Twentieth-Century Responses to Meaninglessness (reference) Type Crossings: Sentential Meaninglessness in the Border Area of Linguistics and Philosophy (Janua Linguarum, Ser. Minor ; No. 44) (reference) You Don't Have to Be Neurotic to Feel Insecure: Finding the Courage to Deal With Guilt, Meaninglessness and Despair (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Usage Frequency: Meaninglessness

"Meaninglessness" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Meaninglessness" is used about 28 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Modern Translations: Meaninglessness

Language		Translations for "meaninglessness"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
German		bedeutungslosigkeit (insignificance, irrelevance, unimportance), Ausdruckslosigkeit (blankness, expressionlessness, inexpressiveness, vacancy). (various references)

Hungarian		céltalanság (aimlessness), értelmetlenség (futility). (various references)

Pig Latin		eaninglessnessmay

Serbo-Croatian		beznačajnost (immateriality, insignificance, insignificancy, irrelevance, littleness, triviality). (various references)

Thai		การไร้ความหมาย (nothing). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations: Meaninglessness

Anagrams: Meaninglessness

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-e-e-e-g-i-l-m-n-n-n-s-s-s-s"
	-3 letters: insanenesses, namelessness, singlenesses, slanginesses.
	-4 letters: agelessness, aimlessness, aliennesses, inanenesses, manginesses, manlinesses, meaningless, seaminesses.
	-5 letters: easinesses, gamenesses, gaminesses, glassiness, insaneness, lamenesses, leannesses, malenesses, meannesses, messalines, sagenesses, samenesses, sanenesses, seemliness, singleness, slanginess, slimnesses.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-e-e-g-i-l-m-n-n-n-s-s-s-s"
	+2 letters: meaninglessnesses.
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Alternative Orthography: Meaninglessness

Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4D 65 61 6E 69 6E 67 6C 65 73 73 6E 65 73 73

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001101 01100101 01100001 01101110 01101001 01101110 01100111 01101100 01100101 01110011 01110011 01101110 01100101 01110011 01110011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004D 0065 0061 006E 0069 006E 0067 006C 0065 0073 0073 006E 0065 0073 0073

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Unmeaningness	Noun: meaninglessness, unmeaningness; Adjective: scrabble.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	28	65,706

Meaninglessness

Definitions: Meaninglessness