stupidity

noun
/stjuːˈpɪdɪti/UK/stuˈpɪdɪti/US/sʈʊpɨˈɖɪʈi/

Etymology

From Latin stupiditātem, accusative of Latin stupiditās, equivalent to stupid + -ity.

  1. derived from stupiditās
  2. derived from stupiditātem

Definitions

  1. The property of being stupid.

    • I suppose you can put it down to gross stupidity, but that's not much of an excuse.
  2. An act that is stupid.

    • Jimmy's stupidity cost him his car.
    • 8. They require that crass stupidities 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.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for stupidity. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA