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stupidity - a poor ability to understand or to profit from experience |
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intelligence the operation of gathering information about an enemy
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inability lacking the power to perform
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denseness,
dumbness,
slow-wittedness the quality of being mentally slow and limited
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dullness,
obtuseness without sharpness or clearness of edge or point; "the dullness of the pencil made his writing illegible"
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backwardness,
mental retardation,
retardation,
slowness,
subnormality lack of normal development of intellectual capacities
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craziness,
folly,
foolishness,
madness informal terms for insanity
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vacuousness indicative of or marked by mental vacuity and an absence of ideas; "the vacuousness of her face belied her feelings"
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stupidity - a stupid mistake |
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betise,
folly,
foolishness,
imbecility |
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error,
fault,
mistake (baseball) a failure of a defensive player to make an out when normal play would have sufficed
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