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stupidity

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FromLatinstupiditātem, accusative ofLatinstupiditās, equivalent tostupid +‎-ity.

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stupidity (countable anduncountable,pluralstupidities)

  1. (uncountable) The property of beingstupid.
    I suppose you can put it down to grossstupidity, but that's not much of an excuse.
    • 1918,W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XIII, inThe Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.:The Bobbs-Merrill Company,→OCLC:
      And Vickers launched forth into a tirade very different from his platform utterances. He spoke with extreme contempt of the densestupidity exhibited on all occasions by the working classes. He said that if you wanted to do anything for them, you must rule them, not pamper them. Soft heartedness caused more harm than good.
  2. (countable) An act that is stupid.
    Jimmy'sstupidity cost him his car.
    • 1895 July,Mark Twain, “Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses”, inNorth American Review:
      8. They require that crassstupidities shall not be played upon the reader as “the craft of the woodsman, the delicate art of the forest,” by either the author or the people in the tale.

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property of being stupid
act that is stupid
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