Synonyms for fatuity

Grammar : Noun

Spell : fuh-too-i-tee, -tyoo-

Phonetic Transcription : fəˈtu ɪ ti, -ˈtyu-

Définition of fatuity

Origin : 1530s, from Middle French fatuité (14c.), from Latin fatuitatem (nominative fatuitas) "foolishness," from fatuus "foolish, insipid," of uncertain origin.

noun folly

Example sentences :

The fatuity of vicious and coroneted youth outstripped his discretion.
Extract from : « Viviette » by William J. Locke

For at bottom, atheism is either a fad or a trade or a fatuity.
Extract from : « The Book of Khalid » by Ameen Rihani

Yesterday she was even amused at the strangeness and the fatuity of it all.
Extract from : « Audrey Craven » by May Sinclair

And he knew that the fatuity of it all had begun at last to terrify her.
Extract from : « The Root of Evil » by Thomas Dixon

But the fatuity of their union was evident to them, and they parted.
Extract from : « The World I Live In » by Helen Keller

Frump,—the word calls up the exact picture; frump and fatuity.
Extract from : « The Place of Honeymoons » by Harold MacGrath

This conviction was strengthened by his vanity and conceit, a conceit to the point of fatuity.
Extract from : « Crime and Punishment » by Fyodor Dostoevsky

I am astounded at the fatuity of any set of men who can think of any such project.'
Extract from : « Thirty Years' View (Vol. II of 2) » by Thomas Hart Benton

The fatuity of 132, 142 is such as is found nowhere out of Buchan.
Extract from : « The English and Scottish popular ballads (Volume II of 5) » by Various

I undoubtedly impressed my own sense of its fatuity on every audience to which I gave it.
Extract from : « How to Tell Stories to Children » by Sara Cone Bryant

Antonyms for fatuity

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