inanity

noun

1. (uncountable)The property of being inane, of lacking material of interest or satisfaction, emptiness.

   “All those who criticise the inanity of the effort required by the stemmatic approach without clearly adopting a position of their own, do not, in my view, touch upon the core of the problem […]”

2. (countable, uncountable)Something that is inane.

   “Working in any bureaucracy means being bedeviled by inanities daily.”

   “It was incessant matter for amazement how these Olympians would talk over our heads - during meals, for instance - of this or the other social or political inanity, under the delusion that these pale phantasms of reality were among the importances of life.”