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futility (n.)
1620s, from French
futilité
or directly from Latin
futilitatem
(nominative
futilitas
) "worthlessness, emptiness, vanity," from
futilis
"vain, worthless" (see
futile
). Hence, jocular
futilitarian
(1827, n. and adj.);
futilitarianism
.
