Lexicographical Neighbors of Inaneness
Literary usage of Inaneness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Mediaeval Mind: A History of the Development of Thought and Emotion in by Henry Osborn Taylor (1919)
"... and also leaps, as from the head of Jove, the creature of unconquerable human
need, which never will admit the inaneness of its yearnings. ..."
2. Art Thoughts: The Experiences and Observations of an American Amateur in Europe by James Jackson Jarves (1869)
"... color of those of Venice and Parma had been frittered into inaneness by
mechanical imitators, there was left nothing worthy of the name of Italian art. ..."
3. American Painters: With One Hundred and Four Examples of Their Work Engraved by George William Sheldon (1880)
"They are effects worth striving for, and they are not wrought up to too high a
pitch—not " finished " to mere prettiness and inaneness ; and, ..."
4. Putnam's Word Book: A Practical Aid in Expressing Ideas Through the Use of by Louis Andrew Flemming (1913)
"... foolishness, puerility, stupidity, inanity, inaneness, absurdity, senselessness,
ineptitude. silly, a. witless, foolish, simple, fatuous, imbecile, ..."
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