stupidity

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

/ stuˈpɪd ɪ ti, styu- /

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noun, plural stu·pid·i·ties for 2.

the state, quality, or fact of being stupid.

a stupid act, notion, speech, etc.

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Origin of stupidity

1535–45; <Latin stupiditās, equivalent to stupid(us) stupid + -itās-ity

Words nearby stupidity

stupefaction, stupefactive, stupefy, stupendous, stupid, stupidity, stupor, Sturbridge, sturdy, sturgeon, Sturges

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How to use stupidity in a sentence

The Hyde Amendment has always been a measure that dissolves into stupidity under any close examination.
Will Democrats Let Joe Manchin Throw Women Under The Bus?|Erin Gloria Ryan|June 17, 2021|The Daily Beast
The race may have been foolhardy, but “it blazed the trail to say, this is a valid thing to do,” Jefferson says, though history has not rethought the stupidity of its December timing.
The Hard-Drinking Playboys Who Made Transatlantic Sailing History|Allison McNearney|June 6, 2021|The Daily Beast
In Lindblom's case, he thought the Earthbound disk he'd discovered was lost to his own younger stupidity.
“Deleted” Nintendo floppy recovered 26 years later, full of Earthbound secrets|Sam Machkovech|June 4, 2021|Ars Technica
I like to think such stupidity, insensitivity and ignorance in America cannot be commonplace.
A Nashville hat shop is apologizing after advertising anti-vaccine yellow Star of David badges|Lateshia Beachum|May 30, 2021|Washington Post

GPT-3 hides its stupidity behind a silver tongue, but it typically takes a few goes to get it to generate something that doesn’t show the cracks.
Why GPT-3 is the best and worst of AI right now|Katie McLean|February 24, 2021|MIT Technology Review
Now is the time to get rid of the good ole boys club "Organized Stupidity" is worse than "Organized Crime."
West Virginia. Sigh.|Michael Tomasky|June 19, 2012|DAILY BEAST
His book, Idiot America: How Stupidity Became A Virtue In The Land Of The Free, will be published in June by Broadway Books.
Football, Hold the Stuffing|Charles P. Pierce|November 26, 2008|DAILY BEAST
Stupidity and beauty go hand in hand, and wit and ugliness are seldom separated.
Laboulaye's Fairy Book|Various
Commonplace Dryasdust, and voluminous Stupidity, not worse here than elsewhere, play their Part.
History Of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol. III. (of XXI.)|Thomas Carlyle
Stupidity in critics and public hurt him as much as insincerity in artists, and when confronted with it he was pitiless.
The Life of James McNeill Whistler|Elizabeth Robins Pennell
Stupidity I say, because if they had waited for the Dust-pan Bill, they would have had our fleet entire.
The Remarkable History of Sir Thomas Upmore, bart., M.P., formerly known as "Tommy Upmore"|R. D. Blackmore
Stupidity and wisdom meet in the same centre of sentiment and resolution, in the suffering of human accidents.
The Essays of Montaigne, Complete|Michel de Montaigne

British Dictionary definitions for stupidity

stupidity

/ (stjuːˈpɪdɪtɪ) /

noun plural -ties

the quality or state of being stupid

a stupid act, remark, etc

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