different between fatuousness vs fatuously

fatuousness

English

Etymology

From fatuous +? -ness.

Noun

fatuousness (usually uncountable, plural fatuousnesses)

  1. The characteristic of being fatuous.
  2. Something fatuous; a stupid idea or utterance.

Translations

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fatuously

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

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