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Inanity
//ɪˈnænɪti// noun
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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."
Etymology
From French inanité, from Latin inanitas, equivalent to inane + -ity.
See also for "inanity"
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