inanity

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Then he recalled the inanity and exacting requests of the great lady, and guessed how her reader was able to so boldly play his annoying trick.

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  1. noun The condition or quality of being inane.
  2. noun Something empty of meaning or sense.

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  • 'Off clubbing tonight Belchamber gave the weary little smile with which in court he frequently underlined some prosecution witness's inconsistency or inanity, and said, 'I'm driving to Leeds for the Northern Law Society's dinner Well, don't drink too much or you could end up defending yourself In which case I would have a fool for a client,' said Belchamber. —  Reginald Hill
  • You know, as ridiculous as I find the whole idea of transubstantiation, and the desecration of these crackers, the constant public harping on this inanity is hardly going to help with the dialog between scientist and religios. —  Planet Atheism
  • Now you may ask, what kind of inanity is that, you want to exchange unstable suppliers of oil like Iran with unstable suppliers of solar power like Algeria and sell it as energy independence? —  The Agonist - thoughtful, global, timely
  • It appears that the cost of this inanity will be in the range of hundreds of thousands of dollars. —  New Times News
  • I posted this on that blog of inanity, Questioning Transphobia. —  CaroLINES
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  1. from French inanité = Italian inanità, from Latin inanita (t-)s, emptiness, empty space, from inanis, empty: see inane.
 

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