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单词 fatuity
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fatuityn.

Brit. /fəˈtjuːᵻti/, /fəˈtʃuːᵻti/, U.S. /fəˈt(j)uədi/
Etymology: < French fatuité = Provençal fatuitat, < Latin fatuitātem, < fatuus foolish.
1.
a. Folly, silliness, stupidity. Now chiefly (? after 2) in stronger sense: Crass stupidity, ‘idiotic’ folly; mental blindness caused by ‘infatuation’.The French word, being associated with its etymological cognate fat fop, has usually the sense of ‘conceited folly, silly affectation’; this sense, if it occurs in English, is only a Gallicism.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > foolishness, folly > besottedness, infatuation > [noun]
dotery1587
besottedness1628
fatuity1649
infatuation1649
fatuositya1680
fatuousness1874
stuckness1895
amour fou1961
limerence1977
1649 Εἰκων Βασιλικη v. 28 It had argued..extream fatuitie of minde in Mee, so far to binde My own hands at their request.
1660 E. Waterhouse Disc. Arms & Armory 53 They descend to the fatuity of bringing wild beasts into their Gods and Emperours places.
1797 A. Radcliffe Italian III. ii. 87 He confounded delicacy of feeling with fatuity of mind.
1812 H. Smith & J. Smith Rejected Addr. 56 The applause of unintellectual fatuity.
1859 W. M. Thackeray Virginians lxxxv O strange fatuity of youth!
1878 W. E. H. Lecky Hist. Eng. 18th Cent. I. i. 10 Attacked with a strange fatuity the very Church on whose teaching the monarchical enthusiasm mainly rested.
b. Something fatuous; that which is fatuous.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > foolishness, folly > besottedness, infatuation > [noun] > instance of
fatuity?1548
?1548 J. Bale Comedy Thre Lawes Nature iv. sig. Dviij In vayne worshyp they teachynge mennys fatuyte.
1887 F. Hall in Nation (N.Y.) 44 141/2 Star-gazing..and kindred futilities and fatuities.
2. Idiocy, mental imbecility, dementia. Now rare.
ΘΚΠ
the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > mental deficiency > [noun]
feebleness1340
feeble-mindedness1619
fatuity1621
amentia1793
unnaturality1823
oligophrenia1899
moronism1913
1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy i. i. iii. iii. 51 If..the animal spirits are..cold, fatuity and sottishnesse [follows].
a1676 M. Hale Historia Placitorum Coronæ (1736) I. iv. 29 Ideocy or fatuity à nativitate.
1707 J. Floyer Physician's Pulse-watch 93 The Ancients imputed Fatuity to the Refrigeration of the Head.
1749 D. Hartley Observ. Man i. iii. 391 A species of Madness; as Fatuity or Idiotism is.
1779 S. Johnson Lett. to Mrs. Thrale 6 Apr. Death is dreadful, and fatuity is more dreadful.
1797 M. Baillie Morbid Anat. (ed. 2) xxiv. 434 He has met with this appearance in cases of fatuity.
1884 in New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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