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The universe's way of saying your meeting could've been an email, and so could your meeting about that.
means The quality of having no purpose, use, or meaningful outcome — effort or existence that leads nowhere worth going.
from Straightforward English carpentry: 'point' (from Latin 'punctus,' a prick or sharp tip) long ago extended from physical sharpness to the 'sharp point' of an argument — the bit that matters. Add the negating '-less' and the abstract noun suffix '-ness,' and you get a word built plainly from parts: literally, 'the state of having no point.' No hidden myth here — just English stacking suffixes until the futility was fully load-bearing.
- etymology
- literally means lacking a point, like a blunt needle
- philosophy term
- absurdism treats it as the human condition, not an insult
- camus take
- he said embrace it, then keep pushing the boulder anyway
- everyday version
- printer requiring internet, internet requiring printer