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stupidity

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WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a poor ability to understand or to profit from experience [ant: intelligence ] a stupid mistake [syn: betise , folly , foolishness , imbecility ]

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Stupidity is the property a person, action or belief instantiates by virtue of having or being indicative of low intelligence or poor learning abilities. Stupidity may also refer to Stupidity (Bad Manners album) (2003) Stupidity (Dr. Feelgood album) (1976) ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES crass stupidity ▪ an act of crass stupidity PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES be the height of fashion/stupidity/luxury etc ▪ All these artists were the height of fashion in the middle years of the 19C. ▪ The stunning luminous ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1540s, "want of intelligence," from Latin stupiditatem (nominative stupiditas ) "dullness, stupidity, senselessness," from stupidus "confounded, amazed; dull, foolish" (see stupid ). It also at various times meant "lack of feeling or emotion" (1560s); "stupor, ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context uncountable English) The property of being stupid.

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Stupidity \Stu*pid"i*ty\, n. [L. stupiditas: cf. F. stupidit['e].] The quality or state of being stupid; extreme dullness of perception or understanding; insensibility; sluggishness. Stupor; astonishment; stupefaction. [R.] A stupidity Past admiration ...

Usage examples of stupidity.

Or, as a good anticlerical, is he mocking the stupidity of the religious cliches Panurge recites?

Her mud stupidities, as well as the frequent gaucheries which seemed to bother others, he thought of as merely amusing-perhaps because he grew tired at times of being surrounded by clever, vigilant minds, forever striving to match the astuteness of his own.

Dexter found that after a long day of booze and blather, his party energy had evaporated, nor had he reached the state of sotted stupidity where it was possible to believe that he could prop himself up with more.

Still pondering over the bad habits and abysmal stupidity of Blotto, Hunter Hawk threw open all the windows and, turning his back to the night, sought the safety and sanctity of his bed.

Shaoki, then by their hirelings, the heavy lifter unit the Malleus Maulers, was chance, the typical Shaoki strategic stupidity, or the knowledge the Khelat were coming.

In any case, with true Saronese stupidity he has miscued Computer A-5.

The smug stupidity of these Aubinans had grated on her for years during the case of Porteous Glaves.

Sorensen so intelligently pointed out, psychopathic behavior is usually very distinctive -- it is characterized by impulsiveness, stupidity, and errors due to an attention span limited by emotional disorder.

The voice of reason is feeble against human stupidity, and the Muller family, collectively and individually, represent the quintessence of feeblemindedness.

Instantly regretting her impulsiveness, she rubbed her stinging palm and bit her lower lip to keep from crying over her own stupidity.

Even in the last three or four years of his life, at Supreme Army Headquarters, where he allowed himself to be overwhelmed with details of military strategy, tactics and command, he would take an evening off to reminisce with his old party cronies on the stupidity of the teachers he had had in his youth.

Republicans permits only one narrow exception: When not defined by their monumental stupidity, Republicans must be scarily weird.

Stupidity, thought Jugurtha, torn by a mixture of horror at the sight of Nabdalsa and anger at the thoughtlessness of his brutes, beginning in the one place they ought to have kept free and clear of their attentions.

Looking up at this thing glowing unlight or is it light over the rock edge he knows the songs for the atoms, the infinitely tiny specks of stupidity they are.

And what a welter of unseemliness and disorder and stupidity and bad manners!