nugacity
noun
Roget 499:
want of intelligence
etc.
498,
want of intellect
etc.
450;
shadowness†,
silliness,
foolishness
etc.
adj.;
imbecility,
incapacity,
vacancy of mind,
poverty of intellect,
weakness of intellect,
clouded perception,
poor head,
apartments to let;
stupidity,
stolidity;
hebetude†,
dull understanding,
meanest capacity,
shortsightedness;
incompetence
etc.
(unskillfulness)
699.
one's weak side,
not one's strong point;
bias
etc.
481;
infatuation
etc.
(insanity)
503.
simplicity,
puerility,
babyhood;
dotage,
anility†,
second childishness,
fatuity;
idiocy,
idiotism†;
driveling.
folly,
frivolity,
irrationality,
trifling,
ineptitude,
nugacity†,
inconsistency,
lip wisdom,
conceit;
sophistry
etc.
477;
giddiness
etc.
(inattention)
458;
eccentricity
etc.
503;
extravagance
etc.
(absurdity)
497;
rashness
etc.
863.
act of folly
etc.
699.
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Roget 645:
inutility;
uselessness
etc.
adj.;
inefficacy†,
futility;
ineptitude,
inaptitude;
unsubservience†;
inadequacy
etc.
(insufficiency)
640;
inefficiency,
etc.
(incompetence)
158;
unskillfulness
etc.
699;
disservice;
unfruitfulness
etc.
(unproductiveness)..
169;
labor in vain,
labor lost,
labor of Sisyphus;
lost trouble,
lost labor;
work of Penelope;
sleeveless errand,
wild goose chase,
mere farce.
tautology
etc.
(repetition)
104;
supererogation
etc.
(redundancy)
641.
vanitas vanitatum [Lat.],
vanity,
inanity,
worthlessness,
nugacity†;
triviality
etc.
(unimportance)
643.
caput mortuum [Lat.],
waste paper,
dead letter;
blunt tool.
litter,
rubbish,
junk,
lumber,
odds and ends,
cast-off clothes;
button top;
shoddy;
rags,
orts†,
trash,
refuse,
sweepings,
scourings,
offscourings†,
waste,
rubble,
debris,
detritus;
stubble,
leavings;
broken meat;
dregs
etc.
(dirt)
653;
weeds,
tares;
rubbish heap,
dust hole;
rudera†,
deads†.
fruges consumere natus [Lat.]
[Horace].
etc.
(drone)
683
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Roget 497:
absurdity,
absurdness
etc.
adj.;
imbecility
etc.
499;
alogy†,
nonsense,
utter nonsense;
paradox,
inconsistency;
stultiloquy†,
stultiloquence†;
nugacity†.
blunder,
muddle,
bull;
Irishism†,
Hibernicism†;
slipslop†;
anticlimax,
bathos;
sophism
etc.
477.
farce,
galimathias†,
amphigouri†,
rhapsody;
farrago
etc.
(disorder)
59;
betise [Fr.];
extravagance,
romance;
sciamachy†.
sell,
pun,
verbal quibble,
macaronic†.
jargon,
fustian,
twaddle,
gibberish
etc.
(no meaning)
517;
exaggeration
etc.
549;
moonshine,
stuff;
mare's nest,
quibble,
self-delusion.
vagary,
tomfoolery,
poppycock,
mummery,
monkey trick,
boutade [Fr.],
escapade.
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