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fatuousness

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Synonyms and Antonyms of fatuousness

lack of good sense or judgment

the sheer fatuousness of the theory precludes any serious discussion

Synonyms of fatuousness

absurdity, asininity, balminess, brainlessness, craziness, daftness, dippiness, dottiness, fatuity, folly, foolishness, imbecility, inanity, insanity, lunacy, madness, nonsensicalness, nuttiness, preposterousness, senselessness, silliness, simplicity, unwisdom, wackiness, witlessness, zaniness

Words Related to fatuousness

denseness, dim-wittedness, doltishness, dopiness, dullness (also dulness), dumbness, feeblemindedness, gormlessness [chiefly British], idiocy, mindlessness, oafishness, obtuseness, simplemindedness, simpleness, slowness, stupidity, stupidness, vacuity

fallacy, irrationality, unreasonableness

kookiness, weirdness

laughableness, ludicrousness, ridiculousness

Near Antonyms of fatuousness

logicality, logicalness, rationality, rationalness, reasonability, reasonableness, validity

discernment, insight, perception, percipience

Antonyms of fatuousness

prudence, sagaciousness, sagacity, sageness, sanity, sapience, sensibleness, soundness, wisdom

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