Difference between Pointless and Otiose

POINTLESS vs OTIOSE: ADJECTIVE

Having no reason for being (raison d’être); having no point, reason, or purpose.
Reluctant to work or to exert oneself.
Resulting in no effect.
Being at leisure or ease; unemployed; indolent; idle.
Serving no useful purpose; having no excuse for being
Producing no result or effect
Disinclined to work or exertion
Lazy; indolent.
Of no use; pointless or superfluous.
Ineffective; futile. : vain.

Being at rest or ease; not at work; unemployed; inactive; idle.
Made, done, or performed in a leisurely, half-hearted way; perfunctory, negligent; careless; hence, ineffective; vain; futile; to no purpose.
Having no excuse for being
Serving no useful purpose

Nonsensical, Fruitless, Silly, Irrelevant, Futile, Useless, Unpointed, Blunt, Wasted, Senseless, Worthless, Otiose, Purposeless, Superfluous, Meaningless

Nugatory, Faineant, Work shy, Idle, Wasted, Lazy, Indolent, Slothful, Worthless, Futile, Unavailing, Ineffectual, Useless, Pointless, Superfluous

Nonsensical, Fruitless, Silly, Irrelevant, Futile, Useless, Unpointed, Blunt, Wasted, Senseless, Worthless, Otiose, Purposeless, Superfluous, Meaningless

Nugatory, Work shy, Faineant, Idle, Wasted, Lazy, Indolent, Slothful, Worthless, Futile, Unavailing, Ineffectual, Useless, Pointless, Superfluous

One can hardly imagine a more pointless quarrel.
Putting it in the legal agreement is pointless.
Ion is the recording device, its pretty pointless.
Why Do We Continue to Embrace Pointless Stereotypes?
This fixation on a word is completely pointless.
This is counterproductive and in my opinion, pointless.
Depart all pointless valuables in your own home.
It was a pointless thing to say, it's pointless to go batshit about it.
Physical activity and obesity editorial: is exercise pointless or was it a pointless exercise?
But doing a new stereo mix for that record is pointless, pointless!

DTAA otiose, which cannot be the intention of the negotiating parties and which is also contrary to the generally understood principles of International taxation.
Consequently, a weak enforcement mechanism defeats the very purpose of mediation and renders the entire process unproductive and otiose.
Furthermore, the very idea of an absolute world is untenable, or at the very least empty and otiose.
When Gregory Wenner killed himself, half sick And half malingering, and otiose.
According to him express statutorily conferred power to grant reliefs cannot be negated and rendered otiose.
Without the church to support it, the New Covenant would become otiose.
Ailith Roberts and John Dummett, known collectively as "otiose", are rising stars on the British art scene.
One might wonder whether this makes the previous section on mental action and attributability otiose.
Collier believed them to be, then the Short View is otiose.
US law makes such a distinction in any event otiose.