stupidity

English

Alternative forms

• stupidité (rare)

Etymology

From Latin stupiditātem, accusative of Latin stupiditās, equivalent to stupid +‎ -ity.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /stjuːˈpɪdɪti/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /stuˈpɪdɪti/

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• Rhymes: -ɪdɪti
• Hyphenation: stu‧pid‧i‧ty

Noun

stupidity (countable and uncountable, plural stupidities)

1. (uncountable) The property of being stupid.

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

   • 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XIII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:

     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. (countable) An act that is stupid.

   Jimmy's stupidity cost him his car.

   • 1895 July, Mark Twain, “Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses”, in North American Review:

     8. They require that crass stupidities shall not be played upon the reader as “the craft of the woodsman, the delicate art of the forest,” by either the author or the people in the tale.

Synonyms

• dumbness (informal)
• idiocy
• schmuckiness
• stupidicy (nonstandard)
• unintelligence

Antonyms

• intelligence

Derived terms

• artificial stupidity
• stupidity tax

 

Translations

property of being stupid

• Arabic: غَبَاء m (ḡabāʔ), غَبَاوَة f (ḡabāwa), بَلَاهَة f (balāha)

  Hijazi Arabic: غباء m (ḡabāʔ), تَخَلُّف m (taḵalluf), بلاهة f (balāha), هبالة f (habāla)

• Armenian: հիմարություն (hy) (himarutʻyun)
• Belarusian: ду́расць f (dúrascʹ), глу́пства n (hlúpstva)
• Bengali: মূর্খতা (bn) (murkhôta)
• 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
• Esperanto: stulteco sg
• Finnish: typeryys (fi), älyttömyys (fi)
• French: stupidité (fr) f, idiotie (fr) f
• Galician: estupidez f, burremia f
• German: Dummheit (de) f
• Greek:

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

• Hungarian: butaság (hu)
• Italian: stupidità (it) f
• Latvian: stulbums m, stulbība, muļķība f
• Macedonian: глупост f (glupost)
• Malay: kebodohan
• Malayalam: വിഡ്ഢിത്തം (ml) (viḍḍhittaṁ)
• Navajo: diigis
• Occitan: estupiditat (oc) f
• Plautdietsch: Domheit 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 (es) f, cretinez (es) f, bobada (es) f, necedad (es) f, simpleza (es) f, memez (es) f, bobería (es) f, estulticia (es) f, majadería (es) f, sandez (es) f
• Swahili: ujinga (sw)
• Swedish: dumhet (sv) c, enfald (sv) c
• Telugu: జడత్వము (te) (jaḍatvamu), మూర్ఖత్వం (te) (mūrkhatvaṁ), తెలివితక్కువతనం (telivitakkuvatanaṁ)
• Turkish: aptallık (tr), salaklık (tr)
• Ukrainian: ду́рість (uk) f (dúristʹ), глу́пство n (hlúpstvo), глупо́та f (hlupóta)
• Volapük: stup (vo)

act that is stupid

• Armenian: հիմարություն (hy) (himarutʻyun)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 愚蠢行为 (yúchǔnxíngwéi)

• Czech: hloupost (cs) f
• Dutch: stommiteit (nl) f
• Finnish: typeryys (fi), hölmöily (fi)
• French: stupidité (fr) f, idiotie (fr) f, ânerie (fr) f, sottise (fr) f, bêtise (fr) f
• Galician: parvada (gl) f, conachada f
• German: Dummheit (de) f
• Greek: βλακεία (el) f (vlakeía)
• Hungarian: butaság (hu)
• Italian: stupidaggine (it) f
• Latvian: stulbums m, stulbība f, muļķība
• Malayalam: വിഡ്ഢിത്തം (ml) (viḍḍhittaṁ), മണ്ടത്തരം (maṇṭattaraṁ), മൂഢത (ml) (mūḍhata)
• Portuguese: estupidez (pt) f, asneira (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 (es) f, burricie f, burrada (es) f, sandez (es) f, memez (es) f, necedad (es) f, tontuna (es) f
• Swedish: dumhet (sv) c
• Turkish: aptallık (tr), salaklık (tr)

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• Hebrew: ^{(please verify)} טִפְּשׁוּת f (tipshoot)