Nugacity
Nu`gac´i`ty
| n. | 1. | Futility; trifling talk or behavior; drollery. |
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
References in periodicals archive
?
In a letter to Kingsley Amis dated 19 September 1942, also originating from Warwick, he coins the term "nugacity" to capture his overwhelming sense of temperamental and circumstantial stagnation (SL 44).
Dictionary browser
?
- ▲
- Nudibranchiata
- nudibranchiate
- nudicaudate
- nudicaul
- nudie
- Nudification
- nudism
- nudist
- nuditarian
- nudity
- nudiustertian
- nudnick
- nudnik
- nudomania
- nudum pactum
- Nueces
- Nueces River
- nuée ardente
- Nuevo Laredo
- Nuevo León
- nuevo sol
- nuff said
- Nuffield
- Nuffield teaching project
- nugacious
- Nugacity
- nugae
- Nugation
- nugatoriness
- nugatory
- nuggar
- nugget
- nuggety
- Nugify
- nuisance
- nuisance abatement
- nuisance minefield
- nuisance tax
- nuisance value
- nuisancer
- Nuits-Saint-Georges
- NUJ
- Nujiang
- nuke
- Nukualofa
- Nuku'alofa
- Nukus
- Nul
- null
- null character
- null hypothesis
- ▼
Full browser
?
- ▲
- NUFIC
- NUFL
- Nuflare Technology
- NUFLDASCOL
- NUFN
- NUFO
- NUFORC
- NUFP
- NUFS
- NUFSA
- NUFSD
- NUFT
- NUFTO
- NUFU
- Nufud desert
- Nufud desert
- Nufud desert
- NUFV
- NuFW
- NUFWA
- NUG
- NUG
- NUG
- NUG
- NUG
- NUG-GBA
- NUGA
- Nugaal
- nugacious
- nugacities
- Nugacity
- Nugae
- NUGAG
- NUGAS
- Nugat
- Nugat
- Nugation
- nugatorily
- nugatorily
- nugatorily
- nugatoriness
- nugatory
- nugatory
- nugatory
- NUGB
- NUGC
- NUGCE
- NUGEN
- Nugent criteria
- NUGEQ
- Nuget
- Nuget
- nugett
- nugett
- nugett
- nugett
- NUGG
- nuggar
- nugget
- nugget
- nugget
- ▼