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dullness
English
Alternative forms
- dulness
Etymology
From dull +? -ness.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?d?l.n?s/
Noun
dullness (usually uncountable, plural dullnesses)
- The quality of being slow of understanding things; stupidity.
- The quality of being uninteresting; boring or irksome.
- Lack of interest or excitement.
- The lack of visual brilliance; want of sheen.
- (of an edge) bluntness.
- The quality of not perceiving or kenning things distinctly.
- (archaic) Drowsiness.
- c. 1610-11, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act I scene ii[1]:
- Prospero: […] Thou art inclin'd to sleep. 'Tis a good dulness, / And give it way— I know thou canst not choose.
- c. 1610-11, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act I scene ii[1]:
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stupidity
English
Alternative forms
- stupidité (rare)
Etymology
From Latin stupidit?tem, accusative of Latin stupidit?s, equivalent to stupid +? -ity.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /stju??p?d?ti/
- (General American) IPA(key): /stu?p?d?ti/
- Rhymes: -?d?ti
- Hyphenation: stu?pid?i?ty
Noun
stupidity (countable and uncountable, plural stupidities)
- (uncountable) The property of being stupid.
- (countable) An act that is stupid.
Synonyms
- dumbness
- unintelligence
- idiocy
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