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Meaning of "fatuity" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF FATUITY

fatuity  [fəˈtjuːɪtɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF FATUITY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Fatuity is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES FATUITY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

fatuity

Stupidity

Stupidity is a lack of intelligence, understanding, reason, wit, or sense. Stupidity may be innate, assumed, or reactive – a defence against grief or trauma.

Definition of fatuity in the English dictionary

The first definition of fatuity in the dictionary is complacent foolishness; inanity. Other definition of fatuity is a fatuous remark, act, sentiment, etc. Fatuity is also idiocy.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH FATUITY


acuity
əˈkjuːɪtɪ
ambiguity
ˌæmbɪˈɡjuːɪtɪ
annuity
əˈnjuːɪtɪ
assiduity
ˌæsɪˈdjuːɪtɪ
circuity
səˈkjuːɪtɪ
conspectuity
ˌkɒnspɛkˈtjuːɪtɪ
conspicuity
ˌkɒnspɪˈkjuːɪtɪ
contiguity
kɒntɪˈɡjuːɪtɪ
continuity
ˌkɒntɪˈnjuːɪtɪ
discontinuity
dɪsˌkɒntɪˈnjuːɪtɪ
fortuity
fɔːˈtjuːɪtɪ
gratuity
ɡrəˈtjuːɪtɪ
ingenuity
ˌɪndʒɪˈnjuːɪtɪ
innocuity
ˌɪnəˈkjuːɪtɪ
innocuousness
ˌɪnəˈkjuːɪtɪ
perpetuity
ˌpɜːpɪˈtjuːɪtɪ
perspicuity
ˌpɜːspɪˈkjuːɪtɪ
promiscuity
ˌprɒmɪˈskjuːɪtɪ
strenuity
strɪˈnjuːɪtɪ
vacuity
væˈkjuːɪtɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE FATUITY

fattiest
fattily
fattiness
fatting
fattish
fattism
fattist
fattrels
fatty
fatty acid
fatty degeneration
fatty oil
fatty tissue
fatuities
fatuitous
fatuous
fatuously
fatuousness
fatwa
fatwood

WORDS THAT END LIKE FATUITY

antiquity
biscuity
congruity
deferred annuity
employment equity
equity
fruity
immediate annuity
in perpetuity
incongruity
inequity
iniquity
life annuity
negative equity
obliquity
private equity
propinquity
superfluity
tenuity
ubiquity

Synonyms and antonyms of fatuity in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «FATUITY»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «fatuity» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of fatuity

Translation of «fatuity» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF FATUITY

Find out the translation of fatuity to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of fatuity from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «fatuity» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

昏庸
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

fatuidad
570 millions of speakers

English

fatuity
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

बेहूदा बात
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

حماقة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

бессмысленность
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

fatuidade
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

জাড্য
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

imbécillité
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Fatuity
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Albernheit
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

愚かさ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

fatuity
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Fatuity
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

ngu dại
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

fatuity
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

व्याभिचार
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

akılsızlık
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

fatuità
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

fatuity
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

безглуздість
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

fatuity
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

βλακεία
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

dwaasheid
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

dumhet
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

fatuity
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of fatuity

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «FATUITY»

The term «fatuity» is normally little used and occupies the 118.993 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Principal search tendencies and common uses of fatuity
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «FATUITY» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «fatuity» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «fatuity» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about fatuity

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FATUITY»

Discover the use of fatuity in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to fatuity and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Philadelphia Medical Dictionary: Containing a Concise ...
Аттик: acquisita, fatuity from ехternal and evident causes, or injuries. .dmentía сайтом, fatuity from calculous matter in the brain. ... microce/zhala, fatuity from defective size of the brain. ч v4mem'1'a тог-0828, fatuity from loss of imagination.
John Redman Coxe, 1808
2
A System of Practical Medicine: Comprised in a Series of ...
This last condition is commonly called fatuity, or dementia. u. Dementia. Insane persons, often survive for many years the permanent loss of reason. Some continue very long to display nearly the same phenomena of mental disorder, with ...
Alexander Tweedie, William Wood Gerhard, 1842
3
The Cyclopædia of practical medicine: comprising treatises ...
Fatuity — Dementia — Amentia. — The ultimate tendency of madness when protracted, and the state to which insane persons, if they do not recover, are in general sooner or later reduced, is that of fatuity. The fatuity which constitutes the last ...
Sir John Forbes, Alexander Tweedie, John Conolly, 1833
4
The Cyclopaedia of Practical Medicine: Comprising Treatises ...
For the sake of greater precision we shall divide maniacal fatuity into two grades or stages. The first is that state which Esquirol and Georget have named de' rnence or dementia, a term which is established by the authority of these writers, and ...
Sir John Forbes, Alexander Tweedie, John Conolly, 1867
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The Cyclopaedia of Practical Medicine: Comprising Treatises ...
Fatuity — Dementia — Amentia. — The ultimate tendency of madness when protracted, and the state to which insane persons, if they do not recover, are in general sooner or later reduced, is that of fatuity. The fatuity which constitutes the last ...
John Forbes, 1833
6
London Medical Gazette: Or, Journal of Practical Medicine
Monomania, with Pulmonary conEffusion of serum under arachexcitement. sumption. noid ; slight congestion of blood-vessels of the brain. 2 Female. Monomania, with Exhaustion. Effusion of serum under arachnoid. depression, latterly fatuity.
7
The Works of John Ruskin
these feelings, though I cannot pardon unprincipled submission to them, nor enough wonder at the infinite fatuity of the unhappy persons whom they have betrayed : — Fatuity, self-inflicted, and stubborn in resistance to God's Word and man's ...
John Ruskin, Sir Edward Tyas Cook, Alexander Dundas Ogilvy Wedderburn, 1903
8
The London Medical Repository and Review
With the French writers we cordially coincide, and wo-* nounce that such practice , without a much greater degree of discrimination than the Drs. Mayo inculcate, will, generally, lead to a state of fatuity. But a state of fatuity, say they, is not ...
9
A system of practical medicine comprised in a series of ...
This last condition is commonly called fatuity, or dementia. n. Dementia. Insane persons often survive for many years the permanent loss of reason. Some continue very long to display nearly the same phenomena of mental disorder, with ...
Alexander Tweedie, William Wood Gerhard, 1840
10
The Principles and Pratice of Medicine
Very often, however, insanity terminates in fatuity ; and when it so ends, the fatuity is called dementia. Idiocy, fatuity, and dementia (I mentioned) were in reality the same thing; but if idiocy come on in after life, it is called "fatuity;" and if fatuity be ...
John Elliotson, 1839

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «FATUITY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term fatuity is used in the context of the following news items.
1
The Most Idiotic Comment in Presidential History
The cretinism here resembles a perfect Jenga tower of fatuity: Remove one phrase, and the whole structure tumbles. Americans should gawk at ... «Town Hall, Jul 15»
2
Feel-good nonsense from Pope's greenies
... did work to tell you all you needed to read among the few thousand words, capturing as it did the pompous pointless fatuity of it all. «The Australian, Jun 15»
3
Recovering from Obama: Foreign Policy
There's nothing that reveals Obama's utter fatuity more than this. Even if Obama understood any of this and was interested in pursuing such a ... «American Thinker, Jun 15»
4
East Gardiner a half-measure by a half-mayor: Mallick
It's ragged and weedy, a festival of winter salt damage, and then you hit the Gardiner itself, rising up to fatuity and featurelessness. It is a place ... «Toronto Star, Jun 15»
5
Ding dong the witch is dead…but where now for FIFA?
Asia little more, though the fatuity of one nation one vote, however small, still unbalances all logic. Interesting to see Jerome Valcke dragged ... «World Soccer, Jun 15»
6
The trouble with smiting
And herein lay the fatuity. In order to believe this, you must believe that a deity who knows everything there is to know about everything, can't ... «San Diego CityBEAT, Jun 15»
7
10 Important Life Lessons Animal House Taught Us
However, we mustn't confuse debauchery with vitality, passivity with nobility, or fatuity with purity. Benjamin Franklin famously said, “Early to ... «IFC, May 15»
8
Goodbye, Great Britain
Banking on such quixoticism (and indeed, banking on bankers) David Cameron and Co have ridden into town with the full fatuity of Cameron's ... «DhakaTribune, May 15»
9
Accepting the Narrative of Power
... false pretext, shoddy evidence, and steady vilification–it is impossible to understand how Iran is making an enormous concession to a fatuity. «CounterPunch, May 15»
10
'Re Jane' cleverly recasts Jane Eyre as a Korean American from …
If nothing else, choosing to retell a revered classic as a first novel requires either supreme spunk or reckless fatuity. For Patricia Park – who ... «Christian Science Monitor, May 15»

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