English > stupidity: 2 senses > noun 1, cognition| Meaning | A poor ability to understand or to profit from experience. |
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| Narrower | denseness, dumbness, slow-wittedness | The quality of being mentally slow and limited |
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| dullness, obtuseness | The quality of being slow to understand |
| folly, foolishness, craziness, madness | The quality of being rash and foolish |
| retardation, mental retardation, backwardness, slowness, subnormality | lack of normal development of intellectual capacities |
| vacuousness | indicative of or marked by mental vacuity and an absence of ideas |
| Broader | inability | lack of ability (especially mental ability) to do something |
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| Opposite | intelligence | The ability to comprehend |
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| Spanish | estupidez, idiotez |
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| Catalan | idiòcia |
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| Adjectives | stupid | lacking or marked by lack of intellectual acuity |
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| stupid | lacking intelligence |
