Usually means: Lack of sense or meaning.
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We found 23 dictionaries that define the word inanity:

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  1. inanity: Merriam-Webster
  2. inanity: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. inanity: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. inanity: Collins English Dictionary
  5. inanity: Vocabulary.com
  6. Inanity, inanity: Wordnik
  7. inanity: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. inanity: Wiktionary
  9. inanity: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. inanity: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. inanity: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Inanity, inanity: Dictionary.com
  13. Inanity: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. Inanity: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. inanity: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  16. inanity: FreeDictionary.org
  17. inanity: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. inanity: TheFreeDictionary.com
  19. inanity: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  20. inanity: Rhymezone

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. inanity: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (inanity)

▸ noun:  (uncountable) The property of being inane, of lacking material of interest or satisfaction, emptiness.
▸ noun:  Something that is inane.

Similar:
mindlessness, senselessness, pointlessness, vacuity, inanery, nothingness, unmeaningness, nihilism, inane, unmeaning, more...

Opposite:
sanity, lucidity, coherence, reasonableness

Types:
foolishness, silliness, stupidity, idiotism, imbecility, lunacy, madness, more...

Adjectives:
utter, own, mere, such, sheer, noisy, blank, pompous, complete, general, very

Colors:
    beige,     taupe,     mauve,     ecru,     buff, more...



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Similar:
mindlessness, senselessness, pointlessness, vacuity, inanery, nothingness, unmeaningness, nihilism, inane, unmeaning, more...

Opposite:
sanity, lucidity, coherence, reasonableness

Types:
foolishness, silliness, stupidity, idiotism, imbecility, lunacy, madness, more...

Adjectives:
utter, own, mere, such, sheer, noisy, blank, pompous, complete, general, very

Colors:
    beige,     taupe,     mauve,     ecru,     buff, more...



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