Inanity

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun Inanition; void space; vacuity; emptiness.

II. Inanity ·noun Want of seriousness; aimlessness; frivolity.

III. Inanity ·noun An inane, useless thing or pursuit; a vanity; a silly object;

— chiefly in ·pl; as, the inanities of the world.