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inanities

inanities is the plural of inanity.

Meaning of inanity

Noun

inanity (countable and uncountable, plural inanities)

  1. (uncountable) The property of being inane, of lacking material of interest or satisfaction, emptiness.
    • All those who criticise the inanity of the effort required by the stemmatic approach without clearly adopting a position of their own, do not, in my view, touch upon the core of the problem […]2020, Alessandro Bausi, “7.5 Philological practices: Ethiopic”, in Philipp Roelli, editor, Handbook of Stemmatology: History, Methodology, Digital Approaches, De Gruyter, →DOI, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC...
  2. Something that is inane.
    • Working in any bureaucracy means being bedeviled by inanities daily.

Questions about inanities

What is inanities the plural of?
Inanities is the plural of inanity.

Words near inanities in the dictionary

  1. inanimates
  2. inanimating
  3. inanimation
  4. inanitiated
  5. inanitiation
  6. inanities
  7. inanition
  8. inanitions
  9. inanity
  10. Inanna
  11. inannihilable

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