- 1空洞、無意義；空洞的話
Inanity is the noun that sits beside inane: emptiness of meaning, or a stupid, hollow remark. “The inanity of the speech” means how empty the speech was. “He uttered an inanity” means he said one pointless thing. It is a formal, slightly word. Though actually, English lets it work two ways: uncountable for the quality (inanity), and countable for a single empty remark (an inanity, inanities). In casual talk, people more often say “nonsense” or “rubbish.”
組成From French inanité, from Latin inānitās (“emptiness”), i.e. inane + -ity (turns an adjective into a noun of quality).
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
inanitynoun/ɪˈnænɪti/
- 1
The property of being inane, of lacking material of interest or satisfaction, emptiness.
- All those who criticise the inanity of the effort required by the stemmatic approach without clearly adopting a position of their own, do not, in my view, touch upon the core of the problem […]
- 2
Something that is inane.
- Working in any bureaucracy means being bedeviled by inanities daily.
- It was incessant matter for amazement how these Olympians would talk over our heads - during meals, for instance - of this or the other social or political inanity, under the delusion that these pale phantasms of reality were among the importances of life.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。