Etymology
Origin of stupidity
1535–45; < Latin stupiditās, equivalent to stupid ( us ) stupid + -itās -ity
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Example Sentences
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I could have smacked my forehead over her blind stupidity, but I held myself in check.
From Literature
After all, we rely on a truth-seeking press to save us from governmental stupidity.
A Guardian article that asks if we’re living in a golden age of stupidity includes this juicy quote: “It’s only software developers and drug dealers who call people users.”
I don’t have a theory for Mr. Roberts’s motive, although I am partial to the principle known as Hanlon’s razor: Don’t attribute to malice what you can explain by stupidity.
Are we living in a golden age of stupidity?
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