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Definition of Fatuousness

1. Noun. A ludicrous folly. "The crowd laughed at the absurdity of the clown's behavior"

Definition of Fatuousness

1. Noun. The characteristic of being fatuous. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Fatuousness

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Fatuousness

Literary usage of Fatuousness

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Shakespeare's Sonnets Reconsidered: And in Part Rearranged with Introductory by William Shakespeare (1899)
"BUT it is not Mr Chalmers's fatuousness that is so deplorable—it is the fatuousness of which he has been the canse in others, and which has vitiated more or ..."

2. The London Medical Gazette (1845)
"In a few days the fatuousness and the palsy were lessened, but she now complained of acute pain at the right temple, and at nights had strong fits of ..."

3. Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy (1895)
"Let me only get there," he had said with the fatuousness of Crusoe over his big boat, "and the rest is but a matter of time and energy. ..."

4. The American Historical Review by American historical association (1904)
"... it is evident that his memories about his feelings and acts s regards Cromwell might become confused in the interval between 1 The fatuousness of this ..."

5. The Contemporary Review (1867)
"... out that a considerable amount of absurdity and fatuousness must be scored on the other side, in order to adjust our critical estimate of the poem. ..."

6. The Shadow Line: A Confession by Joseph Conrad (1917)
"It was not for this —and it could not be for that. As to that other thing it was unthinkable. The fatuousness of all this made me stare. ..."

7. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1905)
"... loss of attention, dulness, apathy, forgetfulness, hysterical manifestations, emotional states, hebetude, confusion, amorousness, oddness, fatuousness, ..."

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