What is the quality of producing no valuable effect, or of coming to nothing; uselessness. The futility of this mode of philosophizing. Whewell called?
futility — The quality of producing no valuable effect, or of coming to nothing; uselessness. The futility of this mode of philosophizing. Whewell. (Webster's 1913.)
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- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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