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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

Rewarding the poet’s fatuousness, the portraitist’s flattery and the jeweler’s smarm with gold, she believes she is modeling a higher form of love.

From New York Times Jan. 19, 2020

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 this appealed suddenly to Bedient.

From Fate Knocks at the Door A Novel by Will Levington Comfort