stupidity

[Stu*pid·i*ty]

Stupidity is the quality of being stupid. It’s the opposite of intelligence. Stupidity is responsible for many acts that follow the words, “Hey, watch this!”

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The quality or state of being stupid; extreme dullness of perception or understanding; insensibility; sluggishness.

Noun
a stupid mistake

Noun
a poor ability to understand or to profit from experience


n.
The quality or state of being stupid; extreme dullness of perception or understanding; insensibility; sluggishness.

n.
Stupor; astonishment; stupefaction.


Stupidity

Stu*pid"i*ty , n. [L. stupiditas: cf. F. stupidit'82.] 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.

The quality or state of being stupid; extreme dullness of perception or understanding; insensibility; sluggishness.

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Usage Examples

Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity.

I stood up as best I could to their disgusting stupidity and brutality, but I did not, of course, manage to beat them at their own game. It was a fight to the bitter end, one in which I was not defending ideals or beliefs but simply my own self.

It is a wise man who knows where courage ends and stupidity begins.

Scientists will eventually stop flailing around with solar power and focus their efforts on harnessing the only truly unlimited source of energy on the planet: stupidity. I predict that in the future, scientists will learn how to convert stupidity into clean fuel.

In view of the fact that God limited the intelligence of man, it seems unfair that He did not also limit his stupidity.

If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.

Do not ever say that the desire to 'do good' by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.

No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity.

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Other Usage Examples

Man has made use of his intelligence, he invented stupidity.

Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.

I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.

Alcohol gives you infinite patience for stupidity.

In politics stupidity is not a handicap.

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.

In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.

I don't have time for their judgement and their stupidity and you know they lay down with their ugly wives in front of their ugly children and look at their loser lives and then they look at me and they say, 'I can't process it' well, no, you never will stop trying, just sit back and enjoy the show. You know?

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.

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