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/
Audio (US) (file)
Rhymes: -ɪdɪti
Hyphenation: stu‧pid‧i‧ty

Noun

stupidity (countable and uncountable, plural stupidities)

(uncountable) The property of being stupid.
- 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XIII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, OCLC 4293071:
  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.
(countable) An act that is stupid.
Jimmy's stupidity cost him his car.

Synonyms

dumbness (informal)
idiocy
schmuckiness
stupidicy (nonstandard)
unintelligence

Translations

property of being stupid

Arabic: غَبَاء‎ m (ḡabāʾ), غَبَاوَة‎ f (ḡabāwa), بَلَاهَة‎ f (balāha)
Hijazi Arabic: غباء‎ m (ḡabāʾ), تَخَلُّف‎ m (taḵalluf), بلاهة‎ f (balāha), هبالة‎ f (habāla)
Armenian: հիմարություն (hy) (himarutʿyun)
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
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)
Malay: kebodohan
Malayalam: വിഡ്ഢിത്തം (ml) (viḍḍhittaṃ)
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 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

Armenian: հիմարություն (hy) (himarutʿyun)
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)
Latvian: stulbums m, stulbība f, muļķība
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

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