fatuity
Americannoun
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complacent foolishness; inanity
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a fatuous remark, act, sentiment, etc
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archaic idiocy
Other Word Forms
- fatuitous adjective
Etymology
Origin of fatuity
First recorded in 1530–40; from Latin fatuitās; fatuous, -ity
Example Sentences
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Their success must reveal the home game’s essential fatuity.
His personal story was the stuff of presidents but when asked what he wanted for the country, he struggled - responding with vague fatuities and empty slogans.
From BBC
Decades of of compounding fatuity have created a culture where leisure reading, according to several reports, is at an all time low.
From Salon
The review in The New York Times said that the young tenor “again and again lifted the performance out of the depths of fatuity into which it relentlessly lapsed.”
From New York Times
She is clutching a staff wrapped in an azure ribbon, which somehow cements the fatuity of it.
From Washington Post
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