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n. - Total lack of meaning or ideas.

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  • What you call inanity is yet another demonstration of a subject you have no clue about.
  • A stern, deep voice which utters an egotistical inanity is still stern and deep (deep sounding, anyway).
  • But what makes these letters rise above inanity is the portrait they provide of a wartime capital cut adrift from moral bearings.
  • If putting up with your inanity is one of the conditions of eternal life, I think I’ll take my chances with mortality.
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