Antonyms for fatuousness
Grammar : Noun |
Spell : fach-oo-uhs |
Phonetic Transcription : ˈfætʃ u əs |
Definition of fatuousness
Origin :- c.1600, from Latin fatuus "foolish, insipid, silly;" of uncertain origin (Buck suggests originally "stricken" in the head). Related: Fatuously; fatuousness.
- As in stupidity : noun dullness of mind
- As in idiocy : noun utter stupidity
- He believes in his own tolerance, which is merely his fatuousness.
- Extract from : « G. K. Chesterton, A Critical Study » by Julius West
- Dave asked with a fatuousness that still further irritated him.
- Extract from : « The Best Psychic Stories » by Various
- The fatuousness of forethought had seldom been evinced more ironically.
- Extract from : « Two on a Tower » by Thomas Hardy
- They were greatly assisted by the fatuousness of the Democrats.
- Extract from : « Lincoln » by Nathaniel Wright Stephenson
- Then wrap it up in a blanket of humour, sprinkle with fatuousness, and serve cold.
- Extract from : « Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 99, August 16, 1890 » by Various
- This is neither pride nor fatuousness on my part; it is a sort of intuition that comes to me, I think, from Heaven above.
- Extract from : « Juliette Drouet's Love-Letters to Victor Hugo » by Louis Guimbaud
- Instead of breaking, as the bosses—with the fatuousness of Nero—had hoped, the picket became more intense and more effective.
- Extract from : « Comrade Yetta » by Albert Edwards
- With the fatuousness of a weak man cornered, he clung to unimportant details.
- Extract from : « Openings in the Old Trail » by Bret Harte
- One other partial concession is made in a passage sublime in its fatuousness.
- Extract from : « Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 107, October 13, 1894 » by Various
Synonyms for fatuousness
- absurdity
- apathy
- asininity
- battiness
- brainlessness
- cretinism
- derangement
- doltishness
- fatuity
- fatuousness
- feeble-mindedness
- foolishness
- idiocy
- ignorance
- imbecility
- imprudence
- inanity
- incapacity
- ineptitude
- injudiciousness
- insanity
- insensibility
- insipidity
- lunacy
- madness
- nitwittedness
- nonsense
- obtuseness
- puerility
- senselessness
- shallowness
- silliness
- simplicity
- slowness
- sluggishness
- stolidity
- stupefaction
- stupidness
- stupor
- thick-headedness
- tomfoolery
- weak-mindedness
- weakness
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