inaneness

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Noun
  • But for now, the iconic Saratoga farm is a bucolic retreat from the craziness of Silicon Valley.
    Laura Ness, Mercury News, 19 Apr. 2026
  • But worry not, the podcast episode goes live tomorrow — alongside a new way to explore this craziness.
    Eric Mandel, AJC.com, 13 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • The idiocy of these people knows no bounds.
    Austin Perry OutKick, FOXNews.com, 25 Apr. 2026
  • There’s a heartwarming idiocy to their pursuit, yet what festers underneath is their inability to process grief consciously and the fear that those who deem their existence meaningless might be right.
    Carlos Aguilar, Variety, 14 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • No, but the line captures the aristocracy’s witlessness.
    Daniel Immerwahr, New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • The priests argued that madness was a punishment from the gods and that healing came through repentance, along with sacrifices that helped maintain the temple’s operations.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 28 Apr. 2026
  • The final round of fixtures on Saturday is going to be madness.
    Phil Hay, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Church went to the Holy Land in search of sublimity; Twain fastened on the absurdities of those determined to find it.
    Sebastian Smee, New Yorker, 4 May 2026
  • The ever increasing absurdity turned a familiar mind game between exes into a shrewd illustration of heartbreak’s capacity to create wild distortions of reality.
    Paula Mejía, The Atlantic, 3 May 2026
Noun
  • Jon Caramanica To stratify the 400-song catalog of Carole King, let alone choose her shiniest song, is an exercise in foolishness.
    New York Times, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2026
  • This season Fears has shown both the maturity of the player who came back to discuss his actions with his head coach, and the foolishness of the hothead who responded with the hard foul.
    Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 19 Mar. 2026
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“Inaneness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inaneness. Accessed 9 May. 2026.

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