fatuity
pronunciation
How to pronounce fatuity in British English:
UK [fə'tjʊɪtɪ]
How to pronounce fatuity in American English:
US [fəˈtuɪti, -ˈtju-, fæ-]
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- Noun:
- a ludicrous folly
Word Origin
- fatuity (n.)
- 1640s, from Middle French fatuité (14c.), from Latin fatuitatem (nominative fatuitas) "foolishness, folly," from fatuus "foolish, insipid" (see fatuous).
Example
- 1. This is no doubt the first step out of confusion and fatuity .
- 2. Liu chan fatuity incompetence , in order to have the minister who died , 263 ad , shu weiwasout by .
- 3. God never complaints people 's fatuity , but people always complain god 's injustice .
- 4. The jurists and the roman law , the immorality and illiteracy of the clergy , the fatuity of unpractical pedantry , were mercilessly scourged by him , his aim being of course to make himself conspicuous .
- 5. Our current hypothesis about mahomet , that he was a scheming imposter , a falsehood incarnate , that his religion is a mere mass of quackery and fatuity , begins really to be now untenable to any one .