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noun

    The condition or quality of being useless or ineffective: bootlessness, futility, unavailingness, unprofitableness, uselessness, vainness, vanity. See thrive/fail/exist, used/unused.

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The noun has 2 meanings:

Meaning #1: a lack of creative imagination

Meaning #2: a condition yielding nothing of value
  Synonyms: aridity, barrenness
  Antonym: fruitfulness (meaning #1)

 
 
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