Synonyms for inanity

Grammar : Noun

Spell : ih-nan-i-tee

Phonetic Transcription : ɪˈnæn ɪ ti

Définition of inanity

Origin : c.1600, "emptiness, hollowness," literal and figurative, from French inanité or directly from Latin inanitas "emptiness, empty space," figuratively "worthlessness," noun of quality from inanis "empty, void, worthless, useless," of uncertain origin.

noun silliness

Example sentences :

It does not consist of ingenuity limited, but merely of inanity expanded.
Extract from : « Alarms and Discursions » by G. K. Chesterton

To be a traveller in the inanity of buttonholes was the only lower degradation.
Extract from : « The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol » by William J. Locke

"Do not interrupt me," she added coldly as I was about to utter some inanity.
Extract from : « The Best Short Stories of 1919 » by Various

I lamely murmured some inanity, of which she took not the slightest notice.
Extract from : « Aladdin & Co. » by Herbert Quick

And his gallant answer was interrupted by some inanity from Herr von Mark.
Extract from : « High Noon » by Anonymous

Nobody, nothing could, in the time of his inanity, have made him turn a hair.
Extract from : « The Sacred Fount » by Henry James

But Phœbus shows there may still be something produced from inanity.
Extract from : « Calamities and Quarrels of Authors » by Isaac Disraeli

Oh, that horrid life of buckram, inanity, and do-nothing-ism!
Extract from : « The Galaxy, May, 1877 » by Various

Without her elixirs daily taken we perish of lassitude and inanity.
Extract from : « Tablets » by Amos Bronson Alcott

At this inanity Marie looked first at him, then at the carpet.
Extract from : « The Perfume of Eros: A Fifth Avenue Incident » by Edgar Saltus

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