Word Meanings - FATUITY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Weakness or imbecility of mind; stupidity. Those many forms of popular fatuity. I Taylor.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of FATUITY)
- Dotage
- Imbecility
- senility
- fatuity
- dementedness
- Drivel
- Fatuity
- nonsense
- trifling
- snivel
- babble
- Idiocy
- aberration
- insanity
- Infatuation
- hallucination
- madness
- self-deception
Related words: (words related to FATUITY)
- INFATUATION
The act of infatuating; the state of being infatuated; folly; that which infatuates. The infatuations of the sensual and frivolous part of mankind are amazing; but the infatuations of the learned and sophistical are incomparably more so. I. Taylor. - IMBECILITY
The quality of being imbecile; weakness; feebleness, esp. of mind. Cruelty . . . argues not only a depravedness of nature, but also a meanness of courage and imbecility of mind. Sir W. Temple. Note: This term is used specifically to denote natural - BABBLEMENT
Babble. Hawthorne. - DRIVEL
To be weak or foolish; to dote; as, a driveling hero; driveling love. Shak. Dryden. (more info) 1. To slaver; to let spittle drop or flow from the mouth, like a child, idiot, or dotard. 2. Etym: - ABERRATION
A small periodical change of position in the stars and other heavenly bodies, due to the combined effect of the motion of light and the motion of the observer; called annual aberration, when the observer's motion is that of the earth in its orbit, - SNIVELER
One who snivels, esp. one who snivels habitually. - FATUITY
Weakness or imbecility of mind; stupidity. Those many forms of popular fatuity. I Taylor. - TRIFLE
trifle, probably the same word as F. truffe truffle, the word being 1. A thing of very little value or importance; a paltry, or trivial, affair. With such poor trifles playing. Drayton. Trifles light as air Are to the jealous confirmation strong - NONSENSE
1. That which is not sense, or has no sense; words, or language, which have no meaning, or which convey no intelligible ideas; absurdity. 2. Trifles; things of no importance. Nonsense verses, lines made by taking any words which occur, - TRIFLORAL; TRIFLOROUS
Three-flowered; having or bearing three flowers; as, a triflorous peduncle. - BABBLER
A name given to any one of family of thrushlike birds, having a chattering note. (more info) 1. An idle talker; an irrational prater; a teller of secrets. Great babblers, or talkers, are not fit for trust. L'Estrange. 2. A hound too noisy on - TRIFLING
Being of small value or importance; trivial; paltry; as, a trifling debt; a trifling affair. -- Tri"fling*ly, adv. -- Tri"fling*ness, n. - TRIFLER
One who trifles. Waterland. - TRIFLUCTUATION
A concurrence of three waves. "A trifluctuation of evils." Sir T. Browne. - INSANITY
Such a mental condition, as, either from the existence of delusions, or from incapacity to distinguish between right and wrong, with regard to any matter under action, does away with individual responsibility. Syn. - Insanity, Lunacy, - IDIOCYCLOPHANOUS
See IDIOPHANOUS - DOTAGE
1. Feebleness or imbecility of understanding or mind, particularly in old age; the childishness of old age; senility; as, a venerable man, now in his dotage. Capable of distinguishing between the infancy and the dotage of Greek literature. - SNIVEL
1. To run at the nose; to make a snuffling noise. 2. To cry or whine with snuffling, as children; to cry weakly or whiningly. Put stop to thy sniveling ditty. Sir W. Scott. - BABBLE
It. babbolare; prob. orig., to keep saying ba, imitative of a child 1. To utter words indistinctly or unintelligibly; to utter inarticulate sounds; as a child babbles. 2. To talk incoherently; to utter unmeaning words. 3. To talk much; to chatter; - BABBLERY
Babble. Sir T. More