unmeaningness &c adj.†; scrabble.
empty sound, dead letter, vox et praeterea nihil [Lat.]; a tale
told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing; sounding
brass and a tinkling cymbal.
nonsense, utter nonsense, gibberish; jargon, jabber, mere words,
hocus-pocus, fustian, rant, bombast, balderdash, palaver, flummery,
verbiage, babble, baverdage, baragouin†, platitude, niaiserie†; inanity;
flap-doodle; rigmarole, rodomontade; truism; nugae canorae [Lat.];
twaddle, twattle, fudge, trash, garbage, humbug; poppy-cock [U.S.];
stuff, stuff and nonsense; bosh, rubbish, moonshine, wish-wash, fiddle-
faddle; absurdity &c 497; vagueness &c (unintelligibility) 519.
[routine or reflexive statements without substantive thought, esp.
legal] boilerplate, clich.
V. mean nothing; be unmeaning &c adj.; twaddle, quibble, scrabble.
Adj. unmeaning; meaningless, senseless; nonsensical; void of sense &c
516.
inexpressive, unexpressive; vacant; not significant &c 516;
insignificant.
trashy, washy, trumpery, trivial, fiddle-faddle, twaddling,
quibbling.
unmeant, not expressed; tacit &c (latent) 526.
inexpressible, undefinable, incommunicable.