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“vapidities”
1. An object, a circumstance, an event, etc. which is weary, uninteresting, commonplace, and lifeless: The vapidity of the author's new book resulted in its being a complete failure.
2. Etymology: borrowed from obsolete French vapide, or directly from Latin vapidus, "flat, insipid"; literally, "that which has exhaled its vapor"; related to vappa, "stale wine", and perhaps to vapor, "to exhale".
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2. Etymology: borrowed from obsolete French vapide, or directly from Latin vapidus, "flat, insipid"; literally, "that which has exhaled its vapor"; related to vappa, "stale wine", and perhaps to vapor, "to exhale".
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“vapidities”
Something which is uninteresting, tiresome, and dismal. (1)
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