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jejunosity

jejunosity noun: the state of being jejune; emptiness of substance or naïveté.

Noun

jejunosity (uncountable)

  1. The state of being jejune; emptiness of substance or naïveté.
    • Sonja (Diane Keaton): That is incredibly jejune. / Boris (Woody Allen): That's jejune? You have the temerity to say that I'm talking to you out of jejunosity? I am one of the most june people in all of the Russias!"1975, Woody Allen, Love And Death (motion picture)
    • It could be that all other Sparks adaptations managed to, if not hide, distract from their inherent jejunosity—to borrow from Woody Allen—through cardboard villains, but The Choice doesn’t give viewers the, ahem, choice but to contemplate the banality of virtue.2016 February 4, Eric Henderson, “Review: The Choice”, in Slant Magazine
    Synonyms:
    jejuneness, jejunity

Synonyms of jejunosity

Origin of jejunosity

From jejune + -osity.

Questions about jejunosity

What does jejunosity mean?
Jejunosity means the state of being jejune; emptiness of substance or naïveté.
What part of speech is jejunosity?
Jejunosity is a noun.

Words near jejunosity in the dictionary

  1. jejunoplasties
  2. jejunoplasty
  3. jejunoplication
  4. jejunoscopies
  5. jejunoscopy
  6. jejunosity
  7. jejunostomies
  8. jejunostomy
  9. jejunotomies
  10. jejunotomy
  11. jejunum

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