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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

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

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

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

Merriam Webster's

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

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

see stupid

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

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.

Moby Thesaurus

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