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Meanings of fatuity in English

Portuguese
absurdidade
Catalan
absurditat
Spanish
desatino

A ludicrous folly.

        absurdidade
        Usage of fatuity in English
        1
        This attempt to create a Travellers-free zone is nothing short of fatuity.
        The Irish Times
        2
        Otherwise it is sheer fatuity, or an impotent explosion of literary spite.
        Essays Æsthetical
        3
        He listens to all this with an unbearable little air of fatuity.
        Parisian Points of View
        4
        Or, if curse I do, it shall be at my own fatuity.
        Anna St. Ives
        5
        It is certainly a beacon of slavering profit worship and extreme political fatuity.
        The Guardian
        6
        An exclusively moral education tends to fatuity by the over-excitement of the sensibilities.
        The Elements of Character
        7
        Whatever treatment the case demanded, should have been prompt; to wait was fatuity.
        The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Volume 1
        8
        He half-raised his hands, as if to imply the fatuity of the question.
        Twilight in Italy
        9
        The idea has only to be stated to show its fatuity.
        The Upton Letters
        10
        This was typical of the astonishing fatuity which marked their comments.
        Angel Island
        11
        Upon the countenance of his wife rested a placidity sinking almost into fatuity.
        Paul Faber, Surgeon
        12
        He speedily convinced Clarke of the fatuity of the Directors' proposals.
        The Life of Napoleon I (Volume 1 of 2)
        13
        Barry hated himself for his fatuity as he put the question.
        The Making of a Soul
        14
        The follies which Moliere ridicules are those of affection, not those of fatuity.
        Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 2
        15
        This might be profound insight, and it might be profound fatuity.
        Roderick Hudson
        16
        He still held to an impossible purpose with a tenacity which resembled fatuity.
        The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 17: 1570-72
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        absurdidade
        Fatuity through the time
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