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Pointlessness

noun
1.
Total lack of meaning or ideas.  Synonyms: inanity, mindlessness, senselessness, vacuity.






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"Pointlessness" Quotes from Famous Books



... thoughts, the Romans were going quietly along, content with their simple Di Manes. No better proof of this can be desired than the one accidentally given us in the introduction of Demeter and her daughter Kore into Rome as Ceres and Libera in B.C. 493, and the absolute colourlessness and pointlessness of Libera, in a word the entire lack of connexion in the religious consciousness of Rome between Libera and Persephone. But in B.C. 249, almost two and a half centuries later, matters were on a different basis; Rome had been learning a great deal ...
— The Religion of Numa - And Other Essays on the Religion of Ancient Rome • Jesse Benedict Carter



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