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English
Etymology
From French inanité, from Latin inanitas, equivalent to inane + -ity.
Pronunciation
- enPR: ĭ-năn′-ĭt-ē, IPA(key): /ɪˈnænɪti/
- Hyphenation: i‧nan‧i‧ty
Noun
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.
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