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.

Word History and Origins

Origin of stupidity¹

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

Example Sentences

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.

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"I will not vote. It is a waste of my time. There is no democracy. It is pure stupidity," a taxi driver told AFP.

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Are we living in a golden age of stupidity?

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But his job in sentencing her is “punishing her conduct and not JPMorgan’s stupidity.”

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“There’s stupidity on both sides. Our job is to make fun of it,” he said last year in an interview with The Wall Street Journal.

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Related Words

• absurdity 
• apathy 
• idiocy 
• ignorance 
• lunacy 
• nonsense 
• silliness