FUTILITY
\fjuːtˈɪlɪti], \fjuːtˈɪlɪti], \f_j_uː_t_ˈɪ_l_ɪ_t_i]\
Definitions of FUTILITY
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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The quality of being talkative; talkativeness; loquaciousness; loquacity.
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The quality of producing no valuable effect, or of coming to nothing; uselessness.
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The quality of being talkative; talkativeness; loquaciousness; loquacity.
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The quality of producing no valuable effect, or of coming to nothing; uselessness.
By Noah Webster.
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The absence of a useful purpose or useful result in a diagnostic procedure or therapeutic intervention. The situation of a patient whose condition will not be improved by treatment or instances in which treatment preserves permanent unconsciousness or cannot end dependence on intensive medical care. (From Ann Intern Med 1990 Jun 15;112 (12):949)
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By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By James Champlin Fernald
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n. Want of importance or effect; triflingness; uselessness;—want of weight or solidity, as in arguments;—quality of producing no good effect or of coming to nothing.
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Talkativeness, loquacity; triflingness, want of weight, want of folidity.
By Thomas Sheridan
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