different between fatuity vs fatuously

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French fatuité.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /f??tju??ti/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /f??tu??ti/, [f??tu?.?.?i]

Noun

fatuity (countable and uncountable, plural fatuities)

1. Weakness or imbecility of mind; stupidity.
2. Something fatuous; a stupid idea or utterance.

Related terms

• fatuous

Translations

References

• fatuity in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• fatuity in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

English

Etymology

fatuous +? -ly

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?fæt.ju.?s.li/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?fæt?.u.?s.li/
• ,

Adverb

fatuously (comparative more fatuously, superlative most fatuously)

1. With smug stupidity or vacuous silliness; idiotically.
   • 1835, Michael Ryan (ed.), "Reform in the College of Physicians", London Medical and Surgical Journal, Vol. VII, G. Henderson, page 153,

     Will they, like the fellows, judiciously bear a hand in sweeping the stable, or will they fatuously wait to be themselves swept with a besom of destruction?

Synonyms

• (with smug stupidity): foolishly, idiotically, stupidly

Related terms

• fatuity
• fatuous
• fatuousness