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Webster 1913 Edition

Futility

Fu′tilˊi-ty

,
Noun.
[L.
futilitas
: cf. F.
futilité
.]
1.
The quality of being talkative; talkativeness; loquaciousness; loquacity.
[Obs.]
2.
The quality of producing no valuable effect, or of coming to nothing; uselessness.
The
futility
of this mode of philosophizing.
Whewell.

Webster 1828 Edition

Futility

FUTIL'ITY

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

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