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fatuousness

  • a word derived from fatuous.
    fatuous
    adjective
    foolish or inane, especially in an unconscious, complacent manner; silly; witless.

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An interlude satirizing the stultifying fatuousness of the royal mission is followed by one that fawningly celebrates the magnificence of Diana deigning to speak to Welsh well-wishers.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 17, 2021

The sheer fatuousness of Johnson’s speech, the absence of any discernible values, or a backbone to put behind them, raises in me an unfathomable, hot, eye-pricking sense of having been betrayed.

From The Guardian ● Nov. 15, 2016

Travolta plays Shapiro as an Easter Island head of fatuousness, with Spock eyebrows and pursed lips, trailing famous names like bread crumbs.

From The New Yorker ● Feb. 8, 2016

The fatuousness of these episodes—many of which might have been plucked from the annals of Maoist public-shaming events—underscores the surreal quality of life at many American colleges these days.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2015

Then, he was disgusted with his own fatuousness.

From Black Caesar's Clan : a Florida Mystery Story by Albert Payson Terhune