unmeaningness

Roget category 517

4. Words relating to the intellectual faculties
› 4.8. Nature of ideas communicated
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#517. [Absence of meaning.] Unmeaningness

noun

meaninglessness, unmeaningness etc. adj.^† — scrabble.
empty sound, dead letter, vox et praeterea nihil [Lat.] — a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing;" sounding brass and a tinkling cymbal.
" nonsense, utter nonsense, gibberish — jargon, jabber, mere words, hocus-pocus, fustian, rant, bombast, balderdash, palaver, flummery, verbiage, babble, baverdage, baragouin^†, platitude, niaiserie^† — inanity — flap-doodle — rigmarole, rodomontade — truism — nugae canorae [Lat.] — twaddle, twattle, fudge, trash, garbage, humbug — poppy-cock [U.S.] — stuff, stuff and nonsense — bosh, rubbish, moonshine, wish-wash, fiddle-faddle — absurdity etc. 497 — vagueness etc. (unintelligibility) 519.
[routine or reflexive statements without substantive thought, esp. legal] boilerplate, clich??.

verb

mean nothing — be unmeaning etc. adj. — twaddle, quibble, scrabble.

adjective

unmeaning — meaningless, senseless — nonsensical — void of sense etc. 516.
inexpressive, unexpressive — vacant — not significant etc. 516 — insignificant.
trashy, washy, trumpery, trivial, fiddle-faddle, twaddling, quibbling.
unmeant, not expressed — tacit etc. (latent) 526.
inexpressible, undefinable, incommunicable.

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