sense of futility

collocation in English

meaningsofsenseandfutility

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sense
noun
uk
/sens/us
/sens/
an ability to understand, recognize, value, or react to something, especially any of the five physical abilities to see, hear, smell, taste, ...
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futility
noun[U]
uk
/fjuːˈtɪl.ə.ti/us
/fjuːˈtɪl.ə.t̬i/
the fact of having no effect or of ...
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(Definition ofsenseandfutilityfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofsense of futility

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Suffering from ' asenseoffutility' (17.8 per cent) was much less frequently cited.
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Silencing is likely to exacerbate feelings of alienation, mistrust, and bitterness, and confirm veterans'senseoffutilityof caring or acting.
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Preventive care, however, is also not futile in the ordinarysenseoffutilitydescribed above.
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Youth unemployment has never been so high, nor has the resultingsenseoffutilityand hopelessness among young people and their parents.
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Even generous unemployment pay cannot compensate for the awfulsenseoffutilityof not working; and the talk of cuts in benefits is ominous.
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To the sense of danger which the men must have is added thesenseoffutility.
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Her logic appears in simple two-or three-liners that capture asenseoffutility...
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Life is suffused with asenseoffutilityand stoic despair.
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The poem uses repeated profanity to convey asenseoffutilityand exasperation.
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Responses to impossibility can range from asenseoffutility, to one of increased motivation to deny the impossibility.
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In it, he mourns the loss of youth, the passing of time and his ownsenseoffutility.
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Events compel him to reflect on his life with asenseoffutilitythat lasts until the final moments of the film.
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