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View synonyms for stupidity

stupidity

[stoo-pid-i-tee, styoo-]

noun

plural

stupidities 
  1. the state, quality, or fact of being stupid.

  2. a stupid act, notion, speech, etc.



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Word History and Origins

Origin of stupidity1

1535–45; < Latin stupiditās, equivalent to stupid ( us ) stupid + -itās -ity
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Seriously, can you believe the stupidity of the times we live in?

From Salon

Call it naiveté or just plain stupidity, but I showed up to my first day of class overconfident.

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"I cannot really adequately express to this community the level of stupidity and lack of judgment involved in this case," Fitzpatrick said.

From BBC

Katie Amess said she was "gobsmacked at the stupidity of somebody or a group of people being in the public eye and saying such dangerous, violent rhetoric".

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But, again, they are worth laughing at for their venal stupidity, empty reasoning, and sheer chutzpah in preaching the unbelievable to the unknowing and uncaring.

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