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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

1. a poor ability to understand or to profit from experience;

2. a stupid mistake;
[syn: stupidity, betise, folly, foolishness, imbecility]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Stupidity \Stu*pid"i*ty\, n. [L. stupiditas: cf. F. stupidit['e].] 1. The quality or state of being stupid; extreme dullness of perception or understanding; insensibility; sluggishness. [1913 Webster] 2. Stupor; astonishment; stupefaction. [R.] [1913 Webster] A stupidity Past admiration strikes me, joined with fear. --Chapman. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

stupidity n 1: a poor ability to understand or to profit from experience [ant: intelligence] 2: a stupid mistake [syn: stupidity, betise, folly, foolishness, imbecility]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

109 Moby Thesaurus words for "stupidity": absurdity, absurdness, act of folly, asininity, battiness, blockishness, blunder, boobishness, boorishness, bootlessness, botch, bovinity, brainlessness, buffoonery, bungle, cloddishness, clownishness, crackpottedness, crankiness, crassness, craziness, cretinism, crudeness, daffiness, denseness, density, desipience, dim-wittedness, dimness, doltishness, dull-wittedness, dullardism, dullness, dumb trick, dumbness, duncery, eccentricity, empty-headedness, fatuity, fatuousness, faux pas, folly, foolery, foolhardiness, foolheadedness, foolishness, frivolity, frivolousness, gaffe, giddiness, goofiness, grossness, hebetude, idiocy, imbecility, imprudence, inanity, indiscretion, ineptitude, insanity, irrationality, irresponsibility, lethargy, loutishness, ludicrousness, lumpishness, lunacy, madness, mindlessness, niaiserie, ninnyism, nonsense, nugacity, nuttiness, oafdom, oafishness, obtuseness, opacity, queerness, ridiculousness, risibility, sappiness, screwiness, senselessness, silliness, simpletonianism, simplicity, slowness, sluggishness, solecism, sottise, sottishness, stolidity, stupid thing, thick-headedness, thick-wittedness, thoughtlessness, triflingness, triviality, unteachability, unwise step, wackiness, weak-mindedness, weirdness, witlessness, wrongheadedness, yokelism, zaniness, zanyism
Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856):

STUPIDITY, med. jur. That state of the mind which cannot perceive and embrace the data presented to it by the senses; and therefore the stupid person can, in general, form no correct judgment. It is a want of the perceptive powers. Ray, Med. Jur. c. 3, Sec. 40. Vide Imbecility.