nugacity

  • 1Nugacity — Nu*gac i*ty, n. [L. nugacitas, fr. nugax, acis, trifling.] Futility; trifling talk or behavior; drollery. [R.] Dr. H. More. [1913 Webster] …

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  • 2nugacity — /nooh gas i tee, nyooh /, n., pl. nugacities for 2. 1. triviality; insignificance. 2. something insignificant or inconsequential; a trifle. [1585 95; < LL nugacitas, equiv. to nugac (see NUGACIOUS) + itas ITY] * * * …

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  • 3nugacity — nu·gac·i·ty …

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  • 4nugacity — n(y)üˈgasəd.ē noun ( es) Etymology: Late Latin nugacitas, from Latin nugac , nugax trifling (from nugae trifles, jokes) + itas ity 1. : triviality …

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  • 5Absurdity — (Roget s Thesaurus) &LT; N PARAG:Absurdity &GT;N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 absurdity absurdity absurdness &c. &GT;Adj. Sgm: N 1 imbecility imbecility &c. 499 Sgm: N 1 alogy| alogy| nonsense Sgm: N 1 paradox paradox …

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  • 6absurdity — Synonyms and related words: absurdness, act of folly, aimlessness, amphigory, anticness, babble, babblement, balderdash, bibble babble, bizarreness, bizarrerie, blabber, blather, blunder, bombast, bootlessness, claptrap, craziness, curiousness,&#8230; …

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  • 7big deal — Synonyms and related words: emptiness, flimsiness, foolishness, frivolity, frivolousness, futility, idleness, inanity, levity, lightness, nugacity, shallowness, silliness, slenderness, slightness, superficiality, triflingness, triteness,&#8230; …

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  • 8buffoonery — Synonyms and related words: acting, asininity, banter, battiness, brainlessness, business, characterization, clownishness, crackpottedness, crankiness, craziness, daffiness, desipience, eccentricity, fatuity, fatuousness, folly, foolery,&#8230; …

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  • 9eccentricity — Synonyms and related words: aberrance, aberrancy, aberration, abnormality, abnormity, absurdity, absurdness, amorphism, animus, anomalism, anomalousness, anomaly, aptitude, arrhythmia, asininity, battiness, bent, bias, bizarreness, bizarrerie,&#8230; …

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  • 10emptiness — Synonyms and related words: absence, absence of mind, absurdity, acreage, aimlessness, angst, anguish, anxiety, appetite, area, aridity, bareness, barrenness, big deal, blankness, bleakness, bloodlessness, bootlessness, boredom, breadth, canine&#8230; …

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