Definitions
total lack of meaning or ideas
Word origin
From French inanité, from Latin inānitās (“emptiness”), equivalent to inane + -ity.
Used in a sentence
“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 […]”
“Working in any bureaucracy means being bedeviled by inanities daily.”
“No sooner had Charles left Washington than Trump, predictably, began exploiting their private conversations to justify his Iranian inanities.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Empty foolishness”7 letters
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