Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

jejunosity

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: je-junos-i-ty
IPA

27

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

4

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The state of being jejune; emptiness of substance or naïveté.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"Sonja (Diane Keaton): That is incredibly jejune. / Boris (Woody Allen): That's jejune? You have the temerity to say that I'm talking to you out of jejunosity? I am one of the most june people in all of the Russias!""
"It could be that all other Sparks adaptations managed to, if not hide, distract from their inherent jejunosity—to borrow from Woody Allen—through cardboard villains, but The Choice doesn’t give viewers the, ahem, choice but to contemplate the banality of virtue."
"You have to lob his own jejunosity back at him. In a Trump takedown billed as a foreign policy address in San Diego on Thursday, Hillary scored several points."

Etymology

From jejune + -osity.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: jejune

Usage

Uncountable

Synonyms

jejuneness jejunity

Questions

What does jejunosity mean?: The state of being jejune; emptiness of substance or naïveté.
Where does jejunosity come from?: From jejune + -osity.

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