Definition of "pointlessness" [pointlessness]

• The lack of meaning, purpose, or ideas; the characteristic or condition of being pointless. (noun)

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• "Anyone who frequents Twitter or Facebook or texts on their cellphones knows that pointlessness is often exactly the point."
• "Play, Konner says, “combining as it does great energy expenditure and risk with apparent pointlessness, is a central paradox of evolutionary biology.”"
• "However, since I have never been above exercises in pointlessness (see the playoffs capsules, above), I am here this morning to offer up my picks."