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fatuousness::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | absurdity, fatuity, silliness |
| Type of | folly, foolishness, unwiseness |
| Derivation | fatuous |
Examples of fatuousness
fatuousness
Gray shows the fatuousness and vanity of the man, as well as his greatness.
From the time.com
Austen seems to have been born with a fatuousness detector implanted in her mobcapped skull.
From the theatlantic.com
Entire magazines are devoted to fatuousness.
From the abcnews.go.com
Fifty years ago we'd been close to extinction, and now, Max complains, we are given over to fatuousness and triviality.
From the guardian.co.uk
In our modern throwawayculture, fatuousness, disposability and ennui have been elevated to the epitome of all that is cool.
From the telegraph.co.uk
There would seem to be plenty of room for missteps here, of fatuousness, or bathos, or of structural ricketiness at the very least.
From the boston.com
But the trouble with being outrageously fatuous is that, when all the irony has been removed, all that's left is fatuousness.
From the guardian.co.uk
It was where they could get clued in to the fatuousness of civics-book sanctimony, to the permutations of suburban phoniness, to grown-up dissembling and insincerely sincere hucksterism of all kinds.
From the time.com
So when 300 jet setters assembled in Mexico for the opening of a $30 million resort, a by-lined story by Adelita Esterhazy last week dutifully recorded choice bits of fatuousness for WWD readers.
From the time.com
- Absurdity: a ludicrous folly; "the crowd laughed at the absurdity of the clown's behavior"
- Stupidity is a lack of intelligence, understanding, reason, wit, or sense.
- The characteristic of being fatuous
