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inanity

n.

silliness, asininity, foolishness; see stupidity 1, 2.

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Another word for inanity

noun

Total lack of ideas, meaning, or substance:

barrenness, blankness, emptiness, hollowness, vacancy, vacuity, vacuousness. See full

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He complains of the inanity of circus-races (ix.
Scott justly observed that Defoe's style "is the last which should be attempted by a writer of inferior genius; for though it be possible to disguise mediocrity by fine writing, it appears in all its naked inanity when it assumes the garb of simplicity."
He had lost his hold upon Pennsylvania and his support in the house, while a cabal in the senate, bitterly and personally hostile to the treasury, crippled the administration and reduced every government measure to mere inanity.

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