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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. Futility; triviality; something trifling or nonsensical.

Wiktionary

  1. n. futility; trifling talk or behaviour; drollery

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. rare Futility; trifling talk or behavior; drollery.

Etymologies

  1. 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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  1. futility
  1. drollery

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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

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