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inanity

[ ih-nan-i-tee ]

noun

, plural in·an·i·ties
  1. lack of sense, significance, or ideas; silliness.
  2. something inane.
  3. shallowness; superficiality.


inanity

/ ɪˈnænɪtɪ /

noun

  1. lack of intelligence or imagination; senselessness; silliness
  2. a senseless action, remark, etc
  3. archaic.
    emptiness
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of inanity1

From the Latin word inānitās, dating back to 1595–1605. See inane, -ity
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Example Sentences

Apart from the inanities when they do show up, there’s no clear blueprint on the plans to tackle this crisis.

From Time

And I can tap and tap and tap and yo and yo and yo, contemplating or not contemplating the inanity that is this life.

Forget the humor of Stephen Colbert, wisdom of Steve Jobs, or inanity of Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Urbanski can hold forth on the inanity of man-made climate change like a pro.

Perhaps I was but startled yesterday to find a celestial loveliness where I expected to encounter pallid inanity.

Profane inanity, I repeat; for every helpless woman is a living, intolerable blasphemy against the Most High.

In fashionable speech inanity began to be replaced by profanity.

They smile at each other with perfect and well-bred inanity for a second, and then Fred Lasceet slips in between them.

It were a mockery, an inanity, to bid a man spend his affections on hypostatized laws that neither know nor answer him.

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