| It had begun as an experiment to prove the meaninglessness of best-seller lists, or indeed any standard that equates quantity with quality. |
| In fact, it is an account of a desperate, doomed attempt to transcend meaninglessness. |
| More recently, Seeman suggested that normlessness and meaninglessness are manifestations of anomie rather than of alienation. |
| The lead character, Chip, struggles desperately to find a way to circumvent the terrible boredom and meaninglessness of existence. |
| Existentialism is a 20th century philosophy that asserts the fundamental meaninglessness of life and our abject aloneness. |
| The only beneficiary of the adversarial relationship imposed on religion and science two hundred years ago has been meaninglessness. |
