Fatuity

Definitions

1. Weakness or imbecility of mind; stupidity.
   countable, uncountable
2. Something fatuous; a stupid idea or utterance.
   countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“Like⟳ Joel Miller’s friend, the Senior Wrangler, who bowed to the audience from his box at the play⟳, because he and the king happened to enter⟳ the theatre at the same time, only with a fatuity by no means so agreeable to himself, poor Arthur Pendennis felt perfectly convinced that all England would remark⟳ the absence of his name⟳ from the examination-lists, and talk⟳ about his misfortune.”

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