inanity
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From French inanité, from Latin inānitās (“emptiness”), equivalent to inane + -ity.
Pronunciation
[edit]- enPR: ĭ-năn′-ĭt-ē, IPA(key): /ɪˈnænɪti/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Hyphenation: i‧nan‧i‧ty
Noun
[edit]inanity (countable and uncountable, plural inanities)
- (uncountable) The property of being inane, of lacking material of interest or satisfaction, emptiness.
- 2020, Alessandro Bausi, “7.5 Philological practices: Ethiopic”, in Philipp Roelli, editor, Handbook of Stemmatology: History, Methodology, Digital Approaches, De Gruyter, , →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 493:
- 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.
- 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.
- 2026 May 2, Simon Tisdall, “The king went to Washington to save Britain’s bacon. He may also have shown the US how to save itself”, in The Guardian[1], →ISSN:
- No sooner had Charles left Washington than Trump, predictably, began exploiting their private conversations to justify his Iranian inanities.
Translations
[edit]property of being inane
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something that is inane
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