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inanity

noun
/ɪˈnænɪti/

Etymology

From French inanité, from Latin inanitas, equivalent to inane + -ity.

  1. borrowed from inānis — “empty, vain, useless”
  2. suffixed as inanity — “inane + ity”

Definitions

  1. The property of being inane, of lacking material of interest or satisfaction, emptiness.

    • All those who criticise the inanity of the effort required by the stemmatic approach without clearly adopting a position of their own, do not, in my view, touch upon the core of the problem […]

  2. Something that is inane.

    • Working in any bureaucracy means being bedeviled by inanities daily.

The neighborhood

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No curated loop yet for inanity. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA