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1
a foolish act or idea
- opening another auto dealership in an area that already has a surplus of them seems like a gross fatuity
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2
lack of good sense or judgment
- local morning DJs lambasted the fatuity of the homeowner who used gasoline to burn a pile of brushwood
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- denseness,
- dim-wittedness,
- doltishness,
- dopiness,
- dullness
- (also dulness),
- dumbness,
- feeblemindedness,
- gormlessness
- [chiefly British],
- idiocy,
- mindlessness,
- oafishness,
- obtuseness,
- simplemindedness,
- simpleness,
- slowness,
- stupidity,
- stupidness,
- vacuity
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3
the quality or state of lacking intelligence or quickness of mind
- the fatuity of the characters on that TV sitcom actually gets laughs
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- boneheadedness,
- brainlessness,
- denseness,
- density,
- dim-wittedness,
- doltishness,
- dopiness,
- dorkiness,
- dullness
- (also dulness),
- dumbness,
- foolishness,
- gormlessness
- [chiefly British],
- mindlessness,
- oafishness,
- obtuseness,
- senselessness,
- simpleness,
- slowness,
- stupidity,
- stupidness,
- thickness,
- vacuity,
- weak-mindedness,
- witlessness
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The first known use of fatuity was circa 1548
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