Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Futility; triviality; something trifling or nonsensical.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare Futility; trifling talk or behavior; drollery.
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- noun
futility ; trifling talk or behaviour;drollery
Etymologies
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Latin nugacitas, from nugax, -acis, trifling.
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Examples
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Solomon appeared vexed, as he replied — “I seriously lament that my nescience in the common terms of conversation should render it necessary to apply to a nomenclature; but my fellow-students and myself have always had a nolition to enter into nugacity, and on every subject aspire to express ourselves in ornate language.”
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from AWAD:
noun: Triviality; futility.
From Latin nugax (trifling), from nugari (to trifle).
"For many, the Beachcomber column has been an oasis of nugacity in an otherwise worthy landscape."
Beachcomber; The Daily Express (London, UK); Jan 9, 2006.
August 13, 2008