Crossword clues for inanity
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Inanity \In*an"i*ty\, n.; pl. Inanities. [L. inanitas, fr. inanis empty: cf. F. inanit['e]. See Inane.]
Inanition; void space; vacuity; emptiness.
Lack of seriousness; aimlessness; frivolity.
An inane, useless thing or pursuit; a vanity; a silly object; -- chiefly in pl.; as, the inanities of the world.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
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.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context uncountable English) The property of being inane, of lacking material of interest or satisfaction, emptiness. 2 Something that is inane.
WordNet
n. total lack of meaning or ideas [syn: senselessness, mindlessness, vacuity, pointlessness]
Usage examples of "inanity".
All which is an additional reason for making a collection of the incredibly curious literature of Homoeopathy before that pseudological inanity has faded out like so many other delusions.
Less than an hour ago he had seen him an a ball-room dressed in the latest fashion, with priceless lace at throat and wrists, bandying inanities with brainless women, the butt and darling of society, the maker of merriment and laughter.
There are women who listen to the crapola put out by guys at parties because they want to get laid, and there are guys who put up with women's inanities because they want to be polite.
One expects a kind of fumbling inanity from advertising account executives, but not from the men who are paying the bills.
You did say last time you were home, that you would marry could I find you a suitable woman, one who would not bore you with inanities or expect you to dance attendance on her.
Off she would go then to her job as a dental assistant, leaving him at home with little to do besides check the mail and rifle through the inanities of daytime television.
Thus he was obliged to utter endless inanities: Honourable door, this flatus wishes to pass through, or Honourable toilet, this flatus wishes to sit upon you.
To advocate it as a general solution for six billion people would set an all-time record for inanity.
There were plenty of young ladies in England, of high birth and good looks, who would have been quite willing to help him to spend the Blakeney fortune, whilst smiling indulgently at his inanities and his good-humoured foolishness.
Sir Percy’s coats were the talk of the town, his inanities were quoted, his foolish laugh copied by the gilded youth at Almack’s or the Mall.
She despised her husband for his inanities and vulgar, unintellectual occupations.
But it also strengthened her in the now certain knowledge that, with his worldly inanities, his foppish ways, and foolish talk, he was not only wearing a mask, but was playing a deliberate and studied part.
There was an air about the ponderous inanities spoken, which the actors had absorbed like an infection.
It was an air of inanities uttered as revelations and insolently demanding acceptance as such.
She hadn't even thought what their reaction to her would be until a furred, taloned hand took her shoulder and spun her away from the joker mother and two desperately disparate children she was unspooling inanities from, into a hot blast of spoiled-meat predator's breath.