The meaning of FUTILITY is the quality or state of being futile : uselessness. How to use futility in a sentence.
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Define futility. futility synonyms, futility pronunciation, futility translation, English dictionary definition of futility. n. pl. fu til i ties 1. The quality of having no useful result; uselessness. 2. Lack of importance or purpose; frivolousness. 3. A futile act.
Noun futility (usually uncountable, plural futilities) (uncountable) The quality of being futile or useless. an exercise of futility His taking the bar exam for a third time was pure futility.
FUTILITY definition: the quality of being futile; ineffectiveness; uselessness. See examples of futility used in a sentence.
When you can’t see the point in even trying, that’s the feeling of futility, the sense that no matter how much you work at it, nothing good will happen, so you might as well give up.
According to Jeff Miller's Earliest Known Uses of Some of the Words of Mathematics, the term kernel was first used in this meaning by Pontryagin (in translation by Lehmer) in the slightly broader context of group homomorphisms. It doesn't say why Pontryagin or Lehmer chose that particular word though.