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adjectival nouns or quasi-adjectives (keiyodoshi), nouns which may take the genitive case particle 'no', noun (common) (futsuumeishi)
useless, futile, vain
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自分が生きている世界との共感がなければ、作家であることは無益である。
It is no use being a writer if one is not in sympathy with the world in which one is living.
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