Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

inanity

/ɪˈnænɪti/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.95 in modern English

Syllables: i-nan-i-ty
IPA: /ɪˈnænɪti/

10

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

4

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The property of being inane, of lacking material of interest or satisfaction, emptiness.

Uncountable

noun

Something that is inane.

Countable; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"All those who criticise the inanity of the effort required by the stemmatic approach without clearly adopting a position of their own, do not, in my view, touch upon the core of the problem […]"
"Working in any bureaucracy means being bedeviled by inanities daily."
"It was incessant matter for amazement how these Olympians would talk over our heads - during meals, for instance - of this or the other social or political inanity, under the delusion that these pale phantasms of reality were among the importances of life."
"No sooner had Charles left Washington than Trump, predictably, began exploiting their private conversations to justify his Iranian inanities."

Etymology

From French inanité, from Latin inānitās (“emptiness”), equivalent to inane + -ity.

Origin

Source language: French

Word Breakdown

Root: inanité, inānitās
Suffix: inane

Usage

Inflected Forms

inanities (plural)

Synonyms

senselessness mindlessness vacuity pointlessness

Questions

How do you pronounce inanity?: The recorded pronunciation is /ɪˈnænɪti/.
What does inanity mean?: The property of being inane, of lacking material of interest or satisfaction, emptiness.
Where does inanity come from?: It is traced to French.

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