Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Futility

Futility , noun

[Latin futilitas: compare French futilité.]

1.
The quality of being talkative; talkativeness; loquaciousness; loquacity. [Obsolete]
2.
The quality of producing no valuable effect, or of coming to nothing; uselessness.
The futility of this mode of philosophizing. — Whewell