uselessness

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is to uselessness what Henry Ford was to the automobile.

For others life is but a foolish leisure with mock activities and mimic avocations to mask its uselessness.

He even opened his lips to speak, but closed them again with a sense of the uselessness of the attempt.

She was longing to urge her to leave Craddock Dene, but was deterred by the knowledge of the uselessness of such advice.

Not having anything else to do, and her uselessness vexing her, she took to doctoring the poor and concocting medicines.

It does not wear its antiquity as an excuse for sinking into mouldering uselessness.