Definitions for inanity

inanity in·an·i·ty

Spelling: [ih-nan-i-tee]
IPA: /ɪˈnæn ɪ ti/

Inanity is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 60 anagrams from letters in inanity (aiinnty).

Definitions for inanity

noun

  1. lack of sense, significance, or ideas; silliness.
  2. something inane.
  3. shallowness; superficiality.

Origin of inanity

From the Latin word inānitās, dating back to 1595-1605. See inane, -ity

Examples for inanity

Urbanski can hold forth on the inanity of man-made climate change like a pro.

Nobody, nothing could, in the time of his inanity, have made him turn a hair.

I lamely murmured some inanity, of which she took not the slightest notice.

It does not consist of ingenuity limited, but merely of inanity expanded.

Forget the humor of Stephen Colbert, wisdom of Steve Jobs, or inanity of Arnold Schwarzenegger.

To be a traveller in the inanity of buttonholes was the only lower degradation.

And I can tap and tap and tap and yo and yo and yo, contemplating or not contemplating the inanity that is this life.

And his gallant answer was interrupted by some inanity from Herr von Mark.

"Do not interrupt me," she added coldly as I was about to utter some inanity.

But Phœbus shows there may still be something produced from inanity.

Word Value for inanity
Scrable

10

Words with friends

11

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