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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

Fu-til'i-ty, n.

noun

n. [Lat. futilitas, Fr. futilité, Sp. futilidad. See supra.]

  1. The quality of being talkative; talkativeness; loquaciousness; loquacity. [Obs.]
  2. The quality of producing no valuable effect, or of coming to nothing; want of importance or effect; triflingness; uselessness. “The futility of this mode of philosophizing.” Whewell.