-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