What does fatuity mean?
Fatuity means Weakness or imbecility of mind; stupidity..
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/fəˈtjuːəti/ · noun
Weakness or imbecility of mind; stupidity..
Like Joel Miller’s friend, the Senior Wrangler, who bowed to the audience from his box at the play, because he and the king happened to enter the theatre at the same time, only with a fatuity by no means so agreeable to himself, poor Arthur Pendennis felt perfectly convinced that all England would remark the absence of his name from the examination-lists, and talk about his misfortune.
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Fatuity means Weakness or imbecility of mind; stupidity..
Common synonyms include absurdity, silliness, fatuousness.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Like Joel Miller’s friend, the Senior Wrangler, who bowed to the audience from his box at the play, because he and the king happened to enter the theatre at the same time, only with a fatuity by no means so agreeable to himself, poor Arthur Pendennis felt perfectly convinced that all England would remark the absence of his name from the examination-lists, and talk about his misfortune.
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