Definition for FU-TIL'I-TY

FU-TIL'I-TY, n.

  1. Talkativeness; loquaciousness; loquacity. [In this sense, not now used.] L'Estrange.
  2. Triflingness; unimportance; want of weight or effect; as, to expose the futility of arguments.
  3. The quality of producing no valuable effect, or of coming to nothing; as, the futility of measures or schemes.

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