Inanity
//ɪˈnænɪti// noun
noun ·Common ·High school level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 The property of being inane, of lacking material of interest or satisfaction, emptiness. uncountable
"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 total lack of meaning or ideas wordnet
- 3 Something that is inane. countable, uncountable
"Working in any bureaucracy means being bedeviled by inanities daily."
Example
More examples"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 […]"
Etymology
From French inanité, from Latin inanitas, equivalent to inane + -ity.
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