futility (n.)
- absurdity
- aimlessness
- bankruptcy
- defeat
- emptiness
- failure
- fatuity
- fecklessness
- flimsiness
- foolishness
- frivolity
- frivolousness
- fruitlessness
- hollowness
- hopelessness
- idleness
- impossibility
- impotence
- inadvisability
- inanity
- inappropriateness
- inaptitude
- incongruity
- inconvenience
- ineffectiveness
- ineffectuality
- ineffectualness
- inefficaciousness
- inefficacy
- ineptitude
- inexpedience
- inexpediency
- infelicity
- inopportuneness
- insignificance
- invalidity
- levity
- lightness
- meaninglessness
- noise
- nonaccomplishment
- nonsensicality
- nullity
- pointlessness
- purposelessness
- senselessness
- shallowness
- silliness
- slenderness
- slightness
- superficiality
- triteness
- triviality
- undesirability
- unfitness
- unproductiveness
- unprofitability
- unprofitableness
- unseasonableness
- unseemliness
- unsuitability
- untimeliness
- unwiseness
- uselessness
- vacuity
- valuelessness
- vanity
- vapidity
- worthlessness
- wrongness