stupidity

English

Alternative forms

• stupidité (rare)

Etymology

Latin stupiditas

Pronunciation

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Noun

stupidity (countable and uncountable, plural stupidities)

1. (uncountable) The property of being stupid.
   • 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 13, in The Mirror and the Lamp:

     And Vickers launched forth into a tirade very different from his platform utterances. He spoke with extreme contempt of the dense stupidity exhibited on all occasions by the working classes. He said that if you wanted to do anything for them, you must rule them, not pamper them. Soft heartedness caused more harm than good.

   I suppose you can put it down to gross stupidity, but that's not much of an excuse.

2. (countable) An act that is stupid.

   Jimmy's stupidity cost him his car.

Synonyms

• dumbness
• unintelligence
• idiocy

Translations

property of being stupid

• Arabic: غَبَاء m (ḡabāʔ), غَبَاوَة f (ḡabāwa)
• Belarusian: ду́расць f (dúrascʹ), глу́пства n (hlúpstva)
• Bengali: মূর্খতা (murkhota)
• Bulgarian: глу́пост (bg) f (glúpost)
• Catalan: estupidesa (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 愚蠢 (zh) (yúchǔn)

• Czech: hloupost (cs) f
• Dutch: stomheid (nl) f, domheid (nl) f
• Finnish: typeryys (fi)
• French: stupidité (fr) f
• German: Dummheit (de) f
• Greek:

  Ancient: ἀνοησία f (anoēsía), ἀσυνεσία f (asunesía), βλακεία f (blakeía)

• Hungarian: butaság (hu)
• Italian: asinata f, stupidaggine (it) f, fesseria (it) f
• Latvian: stulbums m, stulbība, muļķība f
• Macedonian: глупост f (glupost)
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• Malay: kebodohan
• Navajo: diigis
• Occitan: estupiditat (oc) f
• Polish: głupota (pl) f
• Portuguese: estupidez (pt) f, burrice (pt) f
• Romanian: stupiditate (ro) f, prostie (ro) f, tâmpenie (ro) f
• Russian: глу́пость (ru) f (glúpostʹ), ту́пость (ru) f (túpostʹ), ду́рость (ru) f (dúrostʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: глупост f

  Roman: glupost (sh) f

• Slovak: hlúposť f
• Slovene: neumnost f
• Spanish: estupidez (es) f, burricie, tontería (es) f, idiotez f, cretinez (es) f, bobada (es) f, necedad (es) f, simpleza (es) f, memez (es) f, bobería (es) f, estulticia (es) f, majadería f, sandez (es) f
• Swahili: ujinga (sw)
• Swedish: dumhet (sv) c, enfald (sv) c
• Telugu: జడత్వము (te) (jaḍatvamu), మూర్ఖత్వం (te) (mūrkhatvaṁ) (moorkhatwam), తెలివితక్కువతనం (telivitakkuvatanaṁ) (telivitakkuvatanam)
• Ukrainian: ду́рість (uk) f (dúristʹ), глу́пство n (hlúpstvo), глупо́та f (hlupóta)
• Volapük: stup (vo)

act that is stupid

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 愚蠢 (zh) (yúchǔn)

• Czech: hloupost (cs) f
• Dutch: stommiteit (nl) f
• Finnish: typeryys (fi), hölmöily
• French: stupidité (fr) f, idiotie (fr) f, ânerie (fr) f, sottise (fr) f, bêtise (fr) f
• Galician: parvada (gl) f
• German: Dummheit (de) f
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• Greek: βλακεία (el) f (vlakeía)
• Hungarian: butaság (hu)
• Latvian: stulbums m, stulbība f, muļķība
• Portuguese: estupidez (pt) f
• Romanian: stupiditate (ro) f
• Russian: глу́пость (ru) f (glúpostʹ)
• Spanish: estupidez (es) f, tontería (es) f, bobada (es) f, bobería (es) f, idiotez f, burricie f, burrada (es) f, sandez (es) f, memez (es) f, necedad (es) f, tontuna (es) f
• Swedish: dumhet (sv) c

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• (deprecated template usage) Hebrew: טִפְּשׁוּת (tipshoot) f
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