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Answer for the clue "Stupidity ", 8 letters:
dumbness

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Word definitions for dumbness in dictionaries

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dumbness \Dumb"ness\, n. The quality or state of being dumb; muteness; silence; inability to speak.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. the quality of being mentally slow and limited [syn: denseness , slow-wittedness ]

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The state of being dumb (either mute or dim-witted), that is, of not communicating vocally, whether from selective mutism (refusal to speak) or from an inability to speak. 2 Muteness, silence; abstention from speech. 3 Show or gesture without words; ...

Usage examples of dumbness.

Thinking how now, for a split minute out of the time run, by a happenstance of smartness on their part and dumbness on his, they held it all in their hands.

He sat in utter dumbness, shyer than a boy, but happier than a singing star!

Who didst make and knowest whereof we are made, Oh bear in mind our dust and nothingness, Our wordless tearless dumbness of distress: Bear Thou in mind the burden Thou hast laid Upon us, and our feebleness unstayed Except Thou stay us: for the long long race Which stretches far and far before our face Thou knowest,--remember Thou whereof we are made.

Followed by Venn getting up and stamping off for a walk in the trees, scaring all the grasshoppers into dumbness.

All that was left of old Algiers tried to boast, in forced dumbness, of past glories, of every charm the beautiful, fierce city of pirates must have possessed before the French came to push it slowly but with deadly sureness back from the sea.

Lucifer is pure dumbness when Dante finally meets him in frozen Cocytus, sobbing and mute.

Biswas, thinking of deafness, dumbness, insanity, the horror of the sexual act in that grimy room, felt the yellow cake turn to a sweet slippery paste in his mouth.