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inanity

[ih-nan-i-tee] / ɪˈnæn ɪ ti /
NOUN
silliness
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The Unmitigated Inanity of Cyber Monday The dumbest fake holiday of the year.

From Slate • Nov. 26, 2012

Inanity, banality and peculiarity may flourish, but there remains much more to YouTube than cats playing keyboards.

From The Guardian • Apr. 10, 2010

Raise, or depress, or magnify, or blame, Inanity will ever be the same.

From Calamities and Quarrels of Authors by Disraeli, Isaac

World of Inanity, the first World, could not continue because it had no human conformation, 795-u.

From Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry by Pike, Albert

The man’s words were not false, nor his workings here below; no Inanity and Simulacrum; a fiery mass of Life cast-up from the great bosom of Nature herself.

From Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Carlyle, Thomas




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