Synonyms for stupidity
stuˈpɪd ɪ ti, styu-stu·pid·i·ty

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1. stupidity

   Stupidity is sometimes loosely used for temporary dulness or partial stupor, but chiefly for innate and chronic dulness and sluggishness of mental action, obtuseness of apprehension, etc. Apathy may be temporary, and be dispelled by appeal to the feelings or by the presentation of an adequate motive, but stupidity is inveterate and commonly incurable. Compare APATHY; IDIOCY; STUPOR.

   Synonyms:
   apathy, dulness, insensibility, obtuseness, slowness, sluggishness, stupefaction, stupor

   Antonyms:
   acuteness, alertness, animation, brilliancy, cleverness, intelligence, keenness, quickness, readiness, sagacity, sense, sensibility

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1. stupiditynoun

   a poor ability to understand or to profit from experience

   Synonyms:
   folly, betise, foolishness, imbecility

   Antonyms:
   intelligence

2. stupidity, betise, folly, foolishness, imbecilitynoun

   a stupid mistake

   Synonyms:
   lunacy, imbecility, madness, foolery, betise, tomfoolery, indulgence, unwiseness, foolishness, folly, craziness

   Antonyms:
   intelligence

Matched Categories

1. • Inability
   • Mistake

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1. stupiditynoun

   Synonyms:
   dulness, obtuseness, sluggishness of understanding, slowness of apprehension

2. stupiditynoun

   Synonyms:
   lifelessness, heaviness, insipidity, tameness, vapidness, want of interest

3. stupiditynoun

   Synonyms:
   stupor, lethargy, torpor, COMA, stupefaction, morbid drowsiness

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1. List of paraphrases for "stupidity":

   foolishness, nonsense, folly, stupid, blunder

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1. Richard Feynman:

   The real question of government versus private enterprise is argued on too philosophical and abstract a basis. Theoretically, planning may be good. But nobody has ever figured out the cause of government stupidity and until they do (and find the cure) all ideal plans will fall into quicksand.

2. Mangku Puseh Juga:

   This sacrifice is symbolic of the character of human beings - greed, laziness, stupidity and anger, the main goal is (to) balance the macro world of nature and the micro world within each human.

3. Robert A. Heinlein:

   You have attributed conditions to villainy that simply result from stupidity.

4. Harlan Ellison:

   The two most abundant things in the universe are Hydrogren and stupidity.

5. José Ortega y Gasset:

   Stupefaction, when it persists, becomes stupidity.