Dictionary entry

Futility

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Fu″til′i‐ty (?), n. [L. futilitas: cf. F. futilité.] 1. The quality of being talkative; talkativeness; loquaciousness; loquacity.

2. The quality of producing no valuable effect, or of coming to nothing; uselessness.

The futility of this mode of philosophizing. Whewell.