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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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
He works on the evolution of intelligence and stupidity on Earth.
Playing Go with Darwin - Issue 94: Evolving|David Krakauer|December 16, 2020|Nautilus
It was just days ago that cries of “stocks only go up,” and “no it makes sense that Tesla is going up because it split” and other bits of unironic stupidity were the only thing you could read online about the equities markets.
Stocks are selling off again, and SaaS shares are taking the biggest lumps|Alex Wilhelm|September 4, 2020|TechCrunch
In Middlemarch, George Eliot noted that “we are all born in moral stupidity, taking the world as an udder with which to feed ourselves.”
Just Because It’s Natural Doesn’t Mean It’s Good - Issue 89: The Dark Side|David P. Barash|August 19, 2020|Nautilus

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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noun plural -ties