inanity
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From French inanité, from Latin inanitas, equivalent to inane + -ity.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]inanity (countable and uncountable, plural inanities)
- (uncountable) The property of being inane, of lacking material of interest or satisfaction, emptiness.
- Something that is inane.
- Working in any bureaucracy means being bedeviled by inanities daily.
- 1895, Kenneth Graham, The Golden Age, London, page 5:
- It was incessant matter for amazement how these Olympians would talk over our heads - during meals, for instance - of this or the other social or political inanity, under the delusion that these pale phantasms of reality were among the importances of life.
Translations
[edit]property of being inane
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something that is inane
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