STUPIDITY: Synonyms and Related Words. What is Another Word for STUPIDITY?

Need another word that means the same as “stupidity”? Find 32 synonyms and 30 related words for “stupidity” in this overview.

The synonyms of “Stupidity” are: betise, folly, foolishness, imbecility, lack of intelligence, denseness, ignorance, mindlessness, dullness, slow-wittedness, slowness, vacancy, silliness, idiocy, senselessness, irresponsibility, injudiciousness, ineptitude, inanity, irrationality, absurdity, ridiculousness, fatuousness, fatuity, asininity, pointlessness, meaninglessness, futility, fruitlessness, madness, insanity, lunacy

Stupidity as a Noun

Definitions of "Stupidity" as a noun

According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “stupidity” as a noun can have the following definitions:

• A poor ability to understand or to profit from experience.
• Behaviour that shows a lack of good sense or judgement.
• A stupid mistake.
• The quality of being stupid or unintelligent.

Synonyms of "Stupidity" as a noun (32 Words)

absurdity	The quality or state of being ridiculous or wildly unreasonable. Duncan laughed at the absurdity of the situation.
asininity	The quality of being asinine; stupidity combined with stubbornness.
betise	A stupid mistake.
denseness	The spatial property of being crowded together.
dullness	Lack of interest or excitement. Dullness of comprehension.
fatuity	A ludicrous folly.
fatuousness	A ludicrous folly.
folly	A theatrical revue with glamorous female performers. Trying to drive through a blizzard is the height of folly.
foolishness	Lack of good sense or judgement; stupidity. Adjusting to an insane society is total foolishness.
fruitlessness	A lack of creative imagination.
futility	Uselessness as a consequence of having no practical result. The horror and futility of war.
idiocy	Extreme mental retardation. The idiocy of decimating yew forests.
ignorance	Lack of knowledge or information. He acted in ignorance of basic procedures.
imbecility	Retardation more severe than a moron but not as severe as an idiot.
inanity	A nonsensical remark or action. He commented on the breathtaking inanity of the board s decision.
ineptitude	Having no qualities that would render it valuable or useful. The officials displayed remarkable ineptitude.
injudiciousness	The trait of being injudicious.
insanity	Relatively permanent disorder of the mind. It might be pure insanity to take this loan.
irrationality	The quality of being illogical or unreasonable. The irrationality of square roots.
irresponsibility	A form of untrustworthiness; the trait of lacking a sense of responsibility and not feeling accountable for your actions. The economic ills are a consequence of greed and irresponsibility.
lack of intelligence	The state of needing something that is absent or unavailable.
lunacy	The state of being a lunatic; insanity (not in technical use. It has been suggested that originality demands a degree of lunacy.
madness	The state of having a serious mental illness. In his madness he destroyed the work of years.
meaninglessness	A message that seems to convey no meaning. He resented the meaninglessness of the tasks they assigned him.
mindlessness	The trait of acting rashly and without prudence.
pointlessness	Total lack of meaning or ideas.
ridiculousness	A message whose content is at variance with reason. I recognize the sheer ridiculousness of being afraid of something the size of my thumbnail.
senselessness	Total lack of meaning or ideas.
silliness	Lack of common sense or judgement; foolishness. She had to laugh at her own silliness.
slow-wittedness	The quality of being mentally slow and limited.
slowness	The quality of taking a long time. He was mocked for his slowness in class.
vacancy	An empty area or space. Vacancy vanity and inane deception.

Usage Examples of "Stupidity" as a noun

• One of the stupidities of our age.
• A comedy of infantile stupidity.
• I can't believe my own stupidity.

Associations of "Stupidity" (30 Words)

airhead	A flighty scatterbrained simpleton. She s a total airhead.
arrogance	The quality of being arrogant. The arrogance of this man is astounding.
benighted	Lacking enlightenment or knowledge or culture. Benighted or nighted travelers hurrying toward home.
dullard	A person who evokes boredom. He was caricatured as a dupe and a dullard.
dumb	Make dumb or unheard silence. Struck dumb.
fatuity	A ludicrous folly.
fatuous	Silly and pointless. A fatuous comment.
folly	A costly ornamental building with no practical purpose, especially a tower or mock-Gothic ruin built in a large garden or park. An act of sheer folly.
fool	Make a fool or dupe of. That damn fool waiter.
foolery	Silly or foolish behaviour. We endured his foolery all afternoon.
greed	Excessive desire to acquire or possess more (especially more material wealth) than one needs or deserves. The colonists greed for African land.
haughtiness	Overbearing pride evidenced by a superior manner toward inferiors. Her air of haughtiness.
hubris	(in Greek tragedy) excessive pride towards or defiance of the gods, leading to nemesis. The self assured hubris among economists was shaken in the late 1980s.
idiot	A person of low intelligence.
idiotic	Having a mental age of three to seven years. An idiotic idea.
ignorance	Lack of knowledge or information. He acted in ignorance of basic procedures.
imbecile	Having a mental age of three to seven years. Try not to make imbecile remarks.
imbecility	A stupid mistake.
inability	Lack of ability (especially mental ability) to do something. His inability to accept new ideas.
insanity	Extreme foolishness or irrationality. It might be pure insanity to take this loan.
lunacy	Foolish or senseless behavior. It has been suggested that originality demands a degree of lunacy.
patsy	A person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of. There is a mischievous sparkle in his eyes that suggests he is no patsy.
powerlessness	Lack of ability, influence, or power. The feeling of powerlessness due to poverty.
silly	Ludicrous, foolish. Knocked silly by the impact.
sucker	Of a plant produce suckers. If suckers will actually pay to do the work more fool them.
twit	Aggravation by deriding or mocking or criticizing.
vacuity	Total lack of meaning or ideas. He denounced what he considered the frivolity or vacuity of much contemporary painting.
vanity	Low table with mirror or mirrors where one sits while dressing or applying makeup. The vanity of human wishes.