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stupidity

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stu·pid·i·ty  (st-pd-t, sty-)
n. pl. stu·pid·i·ties
1. The quality or condition of being stupid.
2. A stupid act, remark, or idea.

stupidity [stjuːˈpɪdɪtɪ]
n pl -ties
1. the quality or state of being stupid
2. a stupid act, remark, etc.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.stupiditystupidity - a poor ability to understand or to profit from experience
inability - lack of ability (especially mental ability) to do something
denseness, dumbness, slow-wittedness - the quality of being mentally slow and limited
dullness, obtuseness - the quality of being slow to understand
backwardness, mental retardation, subnormality, slowness, retardation - lack of normal development of intellectual capacities
craziness, foolishness, folly, madness - the quality of being rash and foolish; "trying to drive through a blizzard is the height of folly"; "adjusting to an insane society is total foolishness"
vacuousness - indicative of or marked by mental vacuity and an absence of ideas; "the vacuousness of her face belied her feelings"
intelligence - the ability to comprehend; to understand and profit from experience
2.stupiditystupidity - a stupid mistake                    
error, fault, mistake - a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention; "he made a bad mistake"; "she was quick to point out my errors"; "I could understand his English in spite of his grammatical faults"

stupidity
noun
1. lack of intelligence, imbecility, obtuseness, simplicity, thickness, slowness, dullness, dimness, dumbness (informal), feeble-mindedness, lack of brain, denseness, brainlessness, doziness (Brit. informal), asininity, dopiness (slang), thickheadedness I stared at him, astonished by his stupidity.
Translations
stupidity [stjuːˈpɪdɪtɪ] N
1. (= quality) → estupidez f
he laughed at their stupidityse reía de su estupidez
an act of stupidityuna acción estúpida
2. (= stupid thing) → estupidez f, tontería f
stupidity [stjuːˈpɪdəti] nstupidité f
stupidity
nDummheit f; (= silliness also)Blödheit f (inf)
stupidity [stjuːˈpɪdɪtɪ] nstupidità f inv
stupidity [stjuːˈpɪdɪtɪ] nstupidità f inv


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Where pride and stupidity unite there can be no dissimulation worthy notice, and Miss Vernon shall be consigned to unrelenting contempt; but by all that I can gather Lady Susan possesses a degree of captivating deceit which it must be pleasing to witness and detect.
As Jamrach had not become rich by stupidity, he handed something to his guide and hastened on, and soon came to a toll-gate kept by a Benevolent Gentleman, to whom he gave something, and was suffered to pass.
"Half the trouble is the stupidity of the whites," said Roberts, pausing to take a swig from his glass and to curse the Samoan bar-boy in affectionate terms.
 
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