blockheadism

English

Etymology

From blockhead +‎ -ism.

Noun

blockheadism (countable and uncountable, plural blockheadisms)

1. The character or behaviour of a blockhead; stupidity or idiocy.
   • 1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, (please specify the book or page number):

     Robespierre, when he heard of it, broke out into something almost like swearing at the brutish blockheadism of this Hébert[.]

Translations

stupidity

• Polish: bałwaństwo n

References

• “blockheadism”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.