a. [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, as I am one of the plainest, of men; but, in truth, that shyness of hers touched me exquisitely: it flattered my finest sensations.
1869. Ruskin, Queen of Air, i. 59. In proportion to the degree in which we become narrow in the cause and conception of our passions … their expression by musical sound becomes broken, fatuitous, and at last impossible.
Hence Fatuitousness.
1727. in Bailey, vol. II.
