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单词 fatuity
释义 fa·tu·i·ty
\-üəd.ē, -üətē, -i\ noun
(-es)
Etymology: Middle French fatuité foolishness, from Latin fatuitat-, fatuitas, from fatuus foolish + -itat-, -itas -ity
1.
 a. : something foolish, silly, absurd, or stupid (as an action)
  < the exaggerated patience of all children dealing with the fatuities of all adults — New Yorker >
 b. : foolishness, inanity, absurdity
  < in the light of what has happened, this remark has a poisonous fatuity — Anthony West >
  < refined her good manners into docility, her gentleness almost to fatuity — Louis Auchincloss >
 also : stupidity
  < the vessels … had just arrived at the landing place — and here, with incredible fatuity, were allowed to remain, with most of their indispensable contents still on board — Francis Parkman >
2. archaic : imbecility, idiocy, dementia
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