fatuitous, a.
(fəˈtjuːɪtəs)
[f. L. fatuit-ās (see fatuity) + -ous.]
Characterized by fatuity.
| a 1734 North Lives II. 129 The extremity of fatuitous madness. 1849 C. Brontë Shirley xxix. 427, I may be the most fatuitous..of men. 1869 Ruskin Q. of Air i. 59 In proportion to the degree in which we become narrow in the..conception of our passions..their expression by musical sound becomes broken, fatuitous, and at last impossible. |
Hence faˈtuitousness.
| 1727 in Bailey vol. II. |