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Definition: NUGACITY |
NUGACITYNoun1. Futility; trifling talk or behavior; drollery. |
Etymology: Nugacity \Nu*gac"i*ty\, noun. [Latin expression nugacitas, from nugax, -acis, trifling.]. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Absurdity | Noun: absurdity, absurdness; Adjective: imbecility; alogy, nonsense, utter nonsense; paradox, inconsistency; stultiloquy, stultiloquence; nugacity. |
Imbecility Folly | Folly, frivolity, irrationality, trifling, nugacity, inconsistency, lip wisdom, conceit; sophistry; giddiness; (inattention); eccentricity; extravagance; (absurdity); rashness. |
Inutility | Vanitas vanitatum, vanity, inanity, worthlessness, nugacity; triviality; (unimportance). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Language | Translations for "NUGACITY"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Romanian | lipsã de semnificaţie, lipsã de importanţã (immateriality, indifference, pettiness, triviality), inutilitate (futility, hopelessness, idleness, needlessness, pointlessness, uselessness, vanity). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | марність (emptiness, futility, needlessness, otiosity), безкорисність (otiosity), безглузда думка. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Words rhyming with "NUGACITY" (pronounced 'Nu*gac"i*ty'): Ability, Abnormality, Abnormity, Aboriginality, Absorbability, Absorptivity, Abstrusity, Absurdity, Accendibility, Accentuality, Acceptability, Accessibility, Accidentality, Acclivity, Accomplicity, Accountability, Acerbity, Acetosity, Achromaticity, Acidity, Acquirability, Acrity, Activity, Actuality, Actuosity, Acuity, Addibility, Admirability, Admiralty, Admissibility, Adorability, Aduncity, Adverbiality, Adversity, Advisability, Aeriality, Affability, Affectibility, Agaty, Agility, Agreeability, Alacrity, Alamodality, Aldermanity, Algidity, Alibility, Alienability, Alkalinity, Allotropicity, Alterability. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-g-i-n-t-u-y" | |
-2 letters: acting, acuity, tunica. | |
-3 letters: acing, actin, antic, aunty, canty, cuing, cutin, gaunt, giant, tangy, tunic, tying, uncia, unity. | |
-4 letters: agin, anti, aunt, ayin, cagy, cain, cant, city, cyan, gain, gait, gaun, gnat, guan, tain, tang, ting, tiny, tuna, tung, tyin, unai, unci, unit, yagi, yang, yuan, yuca, yuga. | |
-5 letters: act, ain, ait, ani, ant. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-g-i-n-t-u-y" | |
+1 letter: pugnacity. | |
+3 letters: conjugality, multiagency. | |
+4 letters: contagiously, granulocytic, mutagenicity. | |
+5 letters: calculatingly, centrifugally, consanguinity, mutagenically, suffocatingly. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Translations: Modern 3. Rhymes 4. Anagrams | 5. Bibliography |
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