futility

1. The quality of having no useful result; uselessness.
2. Lack of importance or purpose; frivolousness.
3. A futile act.

noun

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

Definition: fruitlessness
Antonyms: fruitfulness, usefulness

Quotes:

"He is useless on top of the ground; he ought to be under it, inspiring the cabbages." - Mark Twain

"A walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more." - William Shakespeare

"It is the superfluous things for which men sweat." - Seneca

"Life is indeed darkness save when there is urge, and all urge is blind save when there is knowledge, and all knowledge is vain save when there is work, and all work is empty save when there is love." - Kahlil Gibran

"I have measured out my life with coffee spoons." - T. S. Eliot

"No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be: am an attendant lord, one that will do to swell a progress, start a scene or two, advise the prince." - T. S. Eliot

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