What does inanity mean?

Definitions for inanity
ɪˈnæn ɪ tiinani·ty

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. inanity, senselessness, mindlessness, vacuity, pointlessnessnoun

    total lack of meaning or ideas

Wiktionary

  1. inanitynoun

    The property of being inane, of lacking material of interest or satisfaction, emptiness.

  2. inanitynoun

    Something that is inane.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Inanitynoun

    Emptiness; void space.

    Etymology: from inanis, Latin.

    This opinion excludes all such inanity, and admits no vacuities but so little ones as no body whatever can come to, but will be bigger than they, and must touch the corporal parts which those vacuities divide. Kenelm Digby, on Bodies.

ChatGPT

  1. inanity

    Inanity refers to a lack of sense, significance, or ideas; it is sheer foolishness or silliness. It can also refer to something that is utterly absurd or vacuous.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Inanitynoun

    inanition; void space; vacuity; emptiness

  2. Inanitynoun

    want of seriousness; aimlessness; frivolity

  3. Inanitynoun

    an inane, useless thing or pursuit; a vanity; a silly object; -- chiefly in pl.; as, the inanities of the world

  4. Etymology: [L. inanitas, fr. inanis empty: cf. F. inanit. See Inane.]

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of inanity in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of inanity in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of inanity in a Sentence

  1. Eugene Robinson:

    For four long years, Americans woke every morning to a fresh barrage of insanity, inanity and insults from the president and his administration. Now, everything is so normal as to be almost boring.

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