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noun

Inanity n. (pl. inanities)

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.

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Etymology of 'Inanity'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Inanity" Quotes from Famous Books

... bath-tubs with wonder, albeit somewhat doubtfully. They discussed the library with appreciation, or lack of appreciation, according to their degrees of illiteracy or learning: the socialistic element condemned the inanity of the volumes selected; there were only histories, biographies, books of travel, foolish novels and the like—nothing to teach the manner by which the brotherhood of man ...

— Making People Happy • Thompson Buchanan

... poems been the silly, the childish things which they were for a long time described as being; had they been really distinguished from the compositions of other poets merely by meanness of language and inanity of thought; had they indeed contained nothing more than what is found in the parodies and pretended imitations of them; they must have sunk at once, a dead weight, into the slough of oblivion, and have dragged the preface along with them. But year after year increased the number of ...

— English literary criticism • Various

... say that the lesson learned from meeting my cousin taught me more than all those I had received in the space of three years. In short, I had learned how vain is advice dictated by the caprice of a master without a system! I had learned the inanity of individual reason in a matter of experience. I knew that certain laws existed, that those laws proceeded from a Supreme Reason, an immense centre of light, of which each man's reason is but ...

— Delsarte System of Oratory • Various

... her regrets. She was only moderately fond of those inconsequent pleasures which make the life social. She was a good dancer, but a more excellent talker, and she preferred talking to dancing; but the inanity of what are known as stair talks at dances oppressed her; nor did she look forward with any degree of pleasure to what we might term conservatory confidences, which in these luxurious days have become so large a factor in terpsichorean diversions, for Marguerite was of a practical ...

— A Rebellious Heroine • John Kendrick Bangs

... Angels. Christ hath arisen! Joy to humanity! No more shall vanity, Death and inanity Hold ...

— Faust • Goethe

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