8 definitions found for stupidity

Stupidity STUPIDITY, n. [L.] Extreme dullness of perception or understanding; insensibility; sluggishness.

stupidity n 1: a poor ability to understand or to profit from experience [ant: intelligence] 2: a stupid mistake [syn: stupidity, betise, folly, foolishness, imbecility]

stupidity noun (plural -ties) Date: 1541 1. the quality or state of being stupid 2. a stupid idea or act

stupidity see stupid

Stupidity Stu*pid"i*ty, n. [L. stupiditas: cf. F. stupidit['e].] 1. The quality or state of being stupid; extreme dullness of perception or understanding; insensibility; sluggishness. 2. Stupor; astonishment; stupefaction. [R.] A stupidity Past admiration strikes me, joined with fear. --Chapman.

stupidity n. 1. Dulness, obtuseness, insensibility, sottishness, blockishness, doltishness, senselessness, sluggishness of understanding, slowness of apprehension. 2. Lifelessness, heaviness, insipidity, tameness, vapidness, want of interest, stupidness. 3. Stupor, lethargy, torpor, stupefaction, morbid drowsiness, coma.

stupidity stju:ˈpɪdɪtɪ n. 1 fatuity, obtuseness, dullness, denseness, lumpishness, doltishness, simplicity, simple-mindedness, imbecility, cretinism, feeble-mindedness, weak-mindedness, stolidity, dull-wittedness, dimness, dim-wittedness, halfwittedness, thick-wittedness, slow-wittedness, thimble-wittedness, witlessness, brainlessness, mindlessness, empty-headedness, feather-headedness, rattle-headedness, boneheadedness: In public affairs stupidity is more dangerous than knavery. 2 foolishness, folly, asininity, craziness, insanity, madness, absurdity, absurdness, inanity, idiocy, ridiculousness, risibility, ludicrousness, nonsense, senselessness, bootlessness, irresponsibility, irrationality, foolhardiness: The stupidity of such a venture is obvious when you consider the enormous risk and the minuscule return.

109 Moby Thesaurus words for "stupidity": absurdity, absurdness, act of folly, asininity, battiness, blockishness, blunder, boobishness, boorishness, bootlessness, botch, bovinity, brainlessness, buffoonery, bungle, cloddishness, clownishness, crackpottedness, crankiness, crassness, craziness, cretinism, crudeness, daffiness, denseness, density, desipience, dim-wittedness, dimness, doltishness, dull-wittedness, dullardism, dullness, dumb trick, dumbness, duncery, eccentricity, empty-headedness, fatuity, fatuousness, faux pas, folly, foolery, foolhardiness, foolheadedness, foolishness, frivolity, frivolousness, gaffe, giddiness, goofiness, grossness, hebetude, idiocy, imbecility, imprudence, inanity, indiscretion, ineptitude, insanity, irrationality, irresponsibility, lethargy, loutishness, ludicrousness, lumpishness, lunacy, madness, mindlessness, niaiserie, ninnyism, nonsense, nugacity, nuttiness, oafdom, oafishness, obtuseness, opacity, queerness, ridiculousness, risibility, sappiness, screwiness, senselessness, silliness, simpletonianism, simplicity, slowness, sluggishness, solecism, sottise, sottishness, stolidity, stupid thing, thick-headedness, thick-wittedness, thoughtlessness, triflingness, triviality, unteachability, unwise step, wackiness, weak-mindedness, weirdness, witlessness, wrongheadedness, yokelism, zaniness, zanyism