stupidity

stupidity
subs.
Dullness: P. βλακεία, ἡ, νώθεια, ἡ, δυσμάθεια, ἡ, ἀναισθησία, ἡ.
Folly: P. and V. μωρία, ἡ, ἄ̆νοια, ἡ, ἀ̆μᾰθία, ἡ, ἀφροσύ̆νη, ἡ, ἀ̆βουλία, ἡ, ἀ̆σῠνεσία, ἡ (Eur. Frag.), P. ἠλιθιότης, ἡ, ἀβελτερία, ἡ, εὐήθεια, ἡ, βλακεία, ἡ, V. εὐηθία, ἡ, Ar. and V. δυσβουλία, ἡ.

STUPIDITY

stultitia: tarditas ingenii: vecordia: socordia [SYN. in STUPID]: stupiditas: stupor (want of energy or force): vigor animi obtusus: vis animi obtusa (dullness). To do a thing from sheer stupidity stultitia facere aliquid: to act with stupidity stulte et imprudenter facere.

stupidity:

1. stŭpor: but mark the s. of the man, or, I should say, the beast, sed s. hominis vel dicam pecudis attendite, Cic. Phil. 2, 12, 30.

2. stŭpĭdĭtas: astonishing s., incredibilis s., Cic. Phil. 2, 32, 80.

3. stultĭtia: v. FOLLY.

4. tardĭtas and tardĭtas ingenii: v. SLOWNESS.

5. sōcordia: whenever she charged any one with s. she would say he was a greater fool than her son Claudius, si quem socordiae argueret stultiorem aiebat filio suo Cl., Suet. Claud. 3.

6. āmentia: v. MADNESS.

7. fătuĭtas.

8. stŏlīdĭtas (late).

9. insulsĭtas: v. INSIPIDITY. To act with s., stulte facere, Plaut. Most. 1, 3, 20: insulse f., Cic. Att. 15, 4.