fatuous (adj) - foolish, silly, or inane [fach-oo-uhs]
BREAKDOWN: FATU- (foolish) + -OUS (full of)
fatuity is stupidity or foolishness (also fatuousness)
“We live alone in our cluttered psyches, possessed by our entrenched beliefs, our fatuous desires, our endless contradictions - and like it or not we have to put up with this in one another.” —A.S.A. Harrison