inanity
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inanity
- /ɪˈnænɪti/
Rhymes with -ænɪti
Where it comes from
From French inanité, from Latin inānitās (“emptiness”), equivalent to inane + -ity.
noun inanities
- 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 […]
- Something that is inane. Working in any bureaucracy means being bedeviled by inanities daily.
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noun property of being inane
| Español | inanidad |
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| Português | inanidade |
| Français | inanité |
| Deutsch | Inanität, Belanglosigkeit, Sinnfreiheit, Nichtigkeit |
| Русский | бессмы́сленность bessmýslennostʹ |
noun something that is inane
| Deutsch | Belanglosigkeit, Nichtigkeit |
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title = {inanity},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
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urldate = {2026-11-06}
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