unmeaningness

(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)

Lack of meaning or sense

Nouns

1. unmeaningness, meaninglessness, senselessness, etc.; absurdity, inanity; ambiguity (see unintelligibility); oxymoron.

2. nonsense, verbiage, mere words, empty sound, dead letter; gibberish, jargon, academese, jabber, babble, drivel, palaver, claptrap, double-talk, hocus-pocus, mumbo jumbo, gobbledygook, Jabberwocky; balderdash, rigmarole, flummery, humbug, moonshine, fiddle-faddle, wishwash, stuff [and nonsense]; fustian, rant, bombast, rodomontade; platitude, truism; scribble, scrabble, doodle. Informal, hogwash, eyewash, bushwah, horse-feathers, poppycock, flapdoodle, bunk, buncombe. Slang, tommyrot, applesauce, fudge, gas, yawp, baloney, hooey, blah, malarkey, bull[shit], horse[shit], crap.

Verbs — mean nothing, not mean a thing; jabber, babble, twaddle (see

Nouns); scrabble, scribble, scrawl, doodle; drivel, slaver, drool. Slang, bull, gas, talk through one's hat, run off at the mouth.

Adjectives — unmeaning, meaningless, senseless, reasonless, nonsensical, void of sense, without rhyme or reason, for the birds; unintelligible, illegible, inexpressive, expressionless, vacant, blank, inane, vague, ambiguous; inexpressible, glassy, ineffable, undefinable, incommunicable. Slang, deadpan.

Antonyms, see meaning.