"inanity" is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is a noun that refers to something that is silly and shows a lack of sense or intelligence. Example: After listening to the politician's speech, I was struck by its inanity as it contained no ideas or solutions.
Anderson's lyrics are either simple to the point of inanity, or questing and philosophical.
Better writers than I have dealt with the dangerous inanity of those charges.
Leaving aside, of course, the inanity of America's drug policy, the questionable consitutionality of Mr Scott's plan and the range of privacy issues opened up by suspicionless drug-testing.
In modern Europe it has to be the Swedish ditty that won the Eurovision song contest in 1984, whose cheery inanity captures the spirit of the annual pan-European event.
The bile has percolated through their parties: even by Westminster's pantomime standards, exchanges in the House of Commons have become unusually vitriolic, and the mutual accusations (of economic vandalism and rank inanity) severe.
Some rational people mainly women will shake their heads in bewilderment or protest at the inanity of it all.They might as well rail against the wind.
His dual critique of philosophical and religious idealism on the one hand, and popular inanity on the other leads him in quite incompatible directions.
"I'd like to think that South Carolina, being one of the strongest representatives of the South, would have enough common sense to resist the political correctness and inanity of it all," Mr Cooper said.
It rivals Altman's Prêt à Porter for inanity, not to say self-congratulation.
What makes this worse is that people, in their hundreds, and sometimes in their thousands, have retweeted and favourited them over and over again, thereby spreading the inner inanity of my brain even further than it warranted in the first place.
Acaster is lunatic in his pursuit of it, an exercise in repetition that builds to a giddy height and never tips over into inanity.
