Hypernyms for "meaninglessness"
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absurdity
absurdness
aimlessness
amphigory
balderdash
baloney
bilgewater
boloney
bosh
buzzword
cant
cobblers
crock
drool
empty talk
empty words
fa la
fal la
fiddle-faddle
flummery
gibber
gibberish
hooey
hot air
humbug
inanity
incoherence
incoherency
jabberwocky
mindlessness
mummery
nonsense verse
palaver
piffle
pointlessness
poppycock
purposelessness
rhetoric
ridiculousness
rigamarole
rigmarole
schmegegge
senselessness
shmegegge
stuff
stuff and nonsense
taradiddle
tarradiddle
tommyrot
tosh
twaddle
unintelligibility
vacuity
What are hypernyms?
Hypernyms are words with a broader meaning that includes the meaning of the original word. For example, "animal" is a hypernym of "dog" because a dog is a type of animal.
Think of hypernyms as "umbrella terms" or categories that include the original word.