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n. - A ludicrous folly.

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  • Unquestionably after all, how many people from a comprehensive to use the word "fatuity" in such a fluent manner?
  • From most silly novels we can at least extract a laugh; but those of the modern-antique school have a ponderous, a leaden kind of fatuity, under which we groan.
  • Grandisonian airs marked with a suspicion of fatuity.
  • Barry hated himself for his fatuity as he put the question.
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