fatuity
91vacuity — I (Roget s IV) n. 1. [Emptiness] Syn. vacancy, nothingness, void; see emptiness , vacuum . 2. [Inanity] Syn. fatuity, empty headedness, disinterest, disregard; see stupidity 1 , 2 , 3 . II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) n. 1. emptiness nothingness,… …
92Imbecility — (Roget s Thesaurus) Folly. < N PARAG:Imbecility >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 want of intelligence want of intelligence &c. 498 want of intellect &c. 450 Sgm: N 1 shadowness shadowness silliness foolishness &c. >Adj. Sgm: N 1 imbecility… …
93“Ibid.“ — Short story (1,720 words); written probably in the summer of 1928. First published in O Wash TaNong(January 1938); rpt. Phantagraph(June 1940); first collected in Uncollected Prose and Poetry II(1980); corrected text in MW In this… …
94fatuous — [ fatjʊəs] adjective silly and pointless. Derivatives fatuity noun (plural fatuities). fatuously adverb fatuousness noun Origin C17: from L. fatuus foolish + ous …
95absurdity — n. 1. Unreasonableness, irrationality, foolishness, folly, foolery, extravagance, absurdness, nugacity, fatuity, idiocy, drivelling. 2. Absurd thing, drivel, hysteron proteron. See paradox, mare s nest, cart before the horse …
96foolishness — n. 1. Folly, silliness, imbecility, stupidity, fatuity, shallowness, dulness, doltishness. 2. Absurdity, extravagance, nonsense, imprudence, indiscretion. 3. Puerility, childishness, triviality …
97idiocy — n. 1. Condition of an idiot, imbecility, native irrationality, congenital imbecility. 2. Foolishness, imbecility, fatuity, feebleness of intellect, want of understanding …
98imbecility — n. 1. Weakness, feebleness, debility, infirmity, helplessness. 2. Foolishness, childishness, idiocy, fatuity …
99absurdity — n 1. ridiculousness, ridiculosity, silliness, foolishness, folly, childishness, tomfoolery, ab surdness; ludicrousness, nonsense, nonsensicalness, nonsensicality, senselessness; amphigory, bosh, poppycock, drivel, gibberish, balderdash, fiddle… …
100asininity — n 1. stupidity, stupidness, Inf. dumbness, Inf. dopiness, empty headedness, unintelligence, dullness, fatuity; doltishness, oafishness, loutishness, obtuseness; obstinacy, obstinateness, stubbornness. 2. idiocy, Inf. moronity, Inf. moronism,… …
