Meaning & use
Fatuity
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Foolishness or silliness, especially of a smug or self-satisfied kind; also, a foolish remark or act.
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The critic accused the film's script of sheer fatuity dressed up as profundity.
He listened to their fatuities with growing impatience.
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Related to 'fatuous,' meaning complacently or inanely foolish; both trace to the Latin 'fatuus,' foolish.
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