Definition of Inaneness

1. [n -ES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Inaneness

inamor'd
inamorata
inamoratas
inamorate
inamorato
inamoratos
inamored
inamour
inamour'd
inamoured
inamovable
inamrinone
inamyloid
inane
inanely
inaneness (current term)
inanenesses
inaner
inanes
inanest
inangular
inaniloquent
inaniloquous
inanimate
inanimated
inanimately
inanimateness
inanimatenesses
inanimates
inanimation

Literary usage of Inaneness

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Mediaeval Mind: A History of the Development of Thought and Emotion in by Henry Osborn Taylor (1919)
"... and also leaps, as from the head of Jove, the creature of unconquerable human need, which never will admit the inaneness of its yearnings. ..."

2. Art Thoughts: The Experiences and Observations of an American Amateur in Europe by James Jackson Jarves (1869)
"... color of those of Venice and Parma had been frittered into inaneness by mechanical imitators, there was left nothing worthy of the name of Italian art. ..."

3. American Painters: With One Hundred and Four Examples of Their Work Engraved by George William Sheldon (1880)
"They are effects worth striving for, and they are not wrought up to too high a pitch—not " finished " to mere prettiness and inaneness ; and, ..."

4. Putnam's Word Book: A Practical Aid in Expressing Ideas Through the Use of by Louis Andrew Flemming (1913)
"... foolishness, puerility, stupidity, inanity, inaneness, absurdity, senselessness, ineptitude. silly, a. witless, foolish, simple, fatuous, imbecile, ..."

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