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Entry 2 senses Webster, 1913

Futility

/fyo͞ot-ĭl'-ət-ē/ · Fu·til·i·ty · IPA /fjuˈtɪləti/
01 n. The quality of being talkative; talkativeness; loquaciousness; loquacity.
  1. 1.
    The quality of being talkative; talkativeness; loquaciousness; loquacity.[Obs.]
  2. 2.
    The quality of producing no valuable effect, or of coming to nothing; uselessness.
    “The futility of this mode of philosophizing.” Whewell.