fatuity

Noun

Meaning

a ludicrous folly

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

absurdity silliness fatuousness simplicity madness nonsense insanity folly stupidity foolishness ineptitude lunacy idiocy dumbness cretinism
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Antonyms

sapience experience knowledge enlightenment prudence understanding
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Hypernyms

folly foolishness unwiseness

Related terms

fatuous

Examples

If love closes, the self contracts and hardens: the mind having nothing else to occupy its attention and give it that change and renewal it requires, busies itself more and more with self-feeling, which takes on narrow and disgusting forms, like avarice, arrogance and fatuity. Charles Cooley

If we remain grotesquely unequal, we shall lose all sense of fraternity: and fraternity, for all its fatuity as a political objective, turns out to be the necessary condition of politics itself. Tony Judt

the crowd laughed at the absurdity of the clown's behavior Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

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