inanity
noun
lack of sense, significance, or ideas; silliness.
inanities
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pluralof inanity.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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The restaurant experience was the visitors’ introduction to the officious inanities of the Soviet Union, a place of facades and concealment.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
Comedian Megan Stalter plays the office manager Isobel, and Lambert weaponizes Stalter’s preternatural ability to spew a steady stream of absurd workplace inanities.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 31, 2024
He rode herd on the musicological and critical communities, sending unsolicited — indeed, dreaded — postcards to colleagues with capsule critiques, noting errors or inanities, often scathingly.
From New York Times ● Jul. 3, 2022
At times, he slyly hints at judgment at the band’s various inanities and unsavory behavior.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 1, 2021
They were exchanging inanities about the size and terrors of New York, but my body knew that the conversation was about something far more threatening.
From "Jacob Have I Loved" by Katherine Paterson
