Absence of meaning
Absence of meaning
#517. [Absence of meaning.] Unmeaningness. -- N. meaninglessness,
unmeaningness &c. adj[obs].; scrabble.
- empty sound, dead letter, vox et praeterea nihil[Lat]; "a tale told by
an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing"; "sounding brass and
a tinkling cymbal."
- nonsense, utter nonsense, gibberish; jargon, jabber, mere words,
hocus-pocus, fustian, rant, bombast, balderdash, palaver, flummery,
verbiage, babble, baverdage, baragouin[obs], platitude, niaiserie[obs];
inanity; flap-doodle; rigmarole, rodomontade; truism; nugae canorae[Lat];
twaddle, twattle, fudge, trash, garbage, humbug; poppy-cock [U.S.]; stuff,
stuff and nonsense; bosh, rubbish, moonshine, wish-wash, fiddle-faddle;
absurdity &c. 497; vagueness &c. (unintelligibility) 519.
- [routine or reflexive statements without substantive thought, esp.
legal] boilerplate.
- V. mean nothing; be unmeaning &c. adj.; twaddle, quibble, scrabble.
- Adj. unmeaning; meaningless, senseless; nonsensical; void of sense &c.
516.
- inexpressive, unexpressive; vacant; not significant &c. 516;
insignificant.
- trashy, washy, trumpery, trivial, fiddle-faddle, twaddling, quibbling.
- unmeant, not expressed; tacit &c. (latent) 526.
- inexpressible, undefinable, incommunicable.