meaninglessness vs flummery

flummery vs meaninglessness

meaninglessness and flummery both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
meaninglessness	Yes	No	No	No
flummery	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, flummery is a hyponym of meaninglessness; that is, flummery is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than meaninglessness:

meaninglessness: a message that seems to convey no meaning
flummery: meaningless ceremonies and flattery

Other hyponyms of meaninglessness include absurdity, absurdness, ridiculousness, amphigory, nonsense verse, balderdash, fiddle-faddle, piffle, buzzword, cant, cobblers, crock, fa la, fal la, gibber, gibberish, incoherence, incoherency, unintelligibility, jabberwocky, mummery, empty talk, empty words, hot air, palaver, rhetoric, rigamarole, rigmarole, schmegegge, shmegegge, hooey, poppycock, stuff, stuff and nonsense, baloney, bilgewater, boloney, bosh, drool, humbug, taradiddle, tarradiddle, tommyrot, tosh, twaddle.

meaninglessness (noun)	flummery (noun)
the quality of having no value or significance	meaningless ceremonies and flattery
a message that seems to convey no meaning	a bland custard or pudding especially of oatmeal

Difference between meaninglessness and flummery

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