Stupidity

Pronunciation

Alternative forms

• stupidité rare

Origin

From Latin stupiditas.

Noun

1. (uncountable) The property of being stupid.
• 1918, W. B. Maxwell, The Mirror and the Lamp Chapter 13, 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.
2. I suppose you can put it down to gross stupidity, but that's not much of an excuse.
3. (countable) An act that is stupid.
   Jimmy's stupidity cost him his car.