futility

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I love the smell and heat of the coal-face, the futility of it all.

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uselessness as a consequence of having no practical result

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noun

uselessness as a consequence of having no practical result

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Core meanings and parts of speech for futility.

noun

uselessness as a consequence of having no practical result

Example sentences

I love the smell and heat of the coal-face, the futility of it all.

This machine, all by itself, proves my point about the futility of some of this research.

This results in a long string of draws, forcing the computer to learn the concept of futility.

At one point, I was looking through jQuery UI's droppable code and futility seeing how I could optimize it.

Most of the other developers were entirely capable but realized the complete futility of their efforts in the face of this kind of management.

In a different thread there was an argument about the relative futility of some of today's robotics experiments [0].

It is a story about the futility and difficulty of doing their jobs, particularly in the midst of unpredictable technical problems.

So impassioned arguments about "security through obscurity" and "the futility of trying to hide protocols" aren't adding much to the discussion.

Anything else is an exercise in futility, self-deception, and ineffectiveness.

This practice really helps take the edge off of many situations, since I don't see any situation as anything I have to put up with, which seriously reduces the angst and depression that I encountered from feelings of futility and hopelessness from "situations beyond my control" before I adopted the practice.