Definitions
Etymologies
- Latin nugacitas, from nugax, -acis, trifling. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Solomon appeared vexed, as he replied — “I seriously lament that my nescience in the common terms of conversation should render it necessary to apply to a nomenclature; but my fellow-students and myself have always had a nolition to enter into nugacity, and on every subject aspire to express ourselves in ornate language.””
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘nugacity’.
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voluble, Metagrobolize, salubrious, calumny, fugacity, withdrawal, bourse, hypertrophy, leitmotif, argot, improvident, damask and 238 more...
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Greg's List
precarious, transient, evanescence, impermanence, fugacity, transitoriness, volatility, caducity, span, interregnum, effervescent, mine and 63 more...
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some words
phatic, macerate, amanuenses, theophagy, seraglio, gloaming, geophagy, metaphone, anastrophe, neologism, tetragrammaton, bête noire and 568 more...
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swanksalot's Words
juxtaposition, takwin, alchemy, esoteric, mesmerizing, miasma, genuine, solipsism, parapraxis, lacunae, popinjay, catachresis and 17 more...
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melcarroll's list
Magpies
mellifluous, obtuse, ephemeral, translucent, anchorite, limerence, ephemeroptera, eclectic, saturniid, luminescent, incandescent, irridescent and 39 more...
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Very Hazy
Ought to incorporate this into my working vocabulary
betimes, agee, sobriquet, cozen, precis, exonym, froufrou, chichi, captious, dint, sorority, salutory and 57 more...
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john from AWAD:
noun: Triviality; futility.
From Latin nugax (trifling), from nugari (to trifle).
"For many, the Beachcomber column has been an oasis of nugacity in an otherwise worthy landscape."
Beachcomber; The Daily Express (London, UK); Jan 9, 2006. Aug 13, 2008