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Noun: stupidity  st(y)oo'pi-du-tee
  1. A poor ability to understand or to profit from experience
    "His stupidity when it came to technology was frustrating";
    - daftness [informal], feeblemindedness
     
  2. A stupid mistake
    "His stupidity at the formal dinner embarrassed everyone";
    - bêtise, folly, foolishness, imbecility

Derived forms: stupidities

Type of: error, fault, inability, mistake

Antonym: intelligence

Encyclopedia: Stupidity