sottishnessn.
/ˈsɒtɪʃnɪs/ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > stupidity, dullness of intellect > [noun]
hardnessOE
stuntnessc1000
sotshipc1050
witlessnessa1100
sotheada1200
dullness1398
bluntness1483
slowness1495
grossnessa1530
stupidity?1541
assishness?1548
dastardness1552
lourderie1555
dastardliness1556
blockishness1561
doltishness1569
sottage1569
sheepishness1574
doltry1581
sottishness1589
doltage1593
dorbellism1593
grout-headry1600
opacity1611
duncery1615
dunstery1615
stupidness1619
hebetude1621
insulsity1623
unintelligence1634
obtuseness1648
jobbernowlism1652
dullery1653
non-intelligence1653
blockheadishness1656
crassness1664
blockheadedness1716
stolidness1727
blockheadism1753
numbskullity1779
nincompoophood1791
duncishness1805
numbskullism1806
foziness1821
noodledum1821
obtusity1823
soft-headedness1823
noodledom1827
duncehood1829
dunderheadedness1830
sumphishness1830
asininity1831
dunderheadism1836
stockishness1837
dullardness1840
fat-headedness1840
stupor1845
duncedom1847
misintelligence1848
nincompoopery1850
wooden-headedness1850
dumminess1852
jolterheadedness1852
ninnyship1852
donkeyism1855
dumbness1860
beef-wittedness1863
crassitude1865
donkeyhood1869
slow-wittedness1869
chuckle-headedness1880
leatherheadedness1880
pinheadedness1884
numbskulledness1885
donkeydom1889
thickheadedness1889
density1894
moronism1922
nitwittedness1931
nitwittery1931
noodleness1931
dopiness1942
squirrel-headedness1955
nincompoopism1957
dim-wittedness1960
clottishness1961
1589 A. Fleming tr. Virgil Georgiks iv. 74 in A. Fleming tr. Virgil Bucoliks When as a sudden sottishnesse or follie had surprizd And caught th' unwary louer fast.
1604 T. Wright Passions of Minde (new ed.) iv. i. 108 Silence may proceed sometimes of sottishnesse, because a man knowes not how to reason.
1653 H. Holcroft tr. Procopius Gothick Warre i. 27 in tr. Procopius Hist. Warres Justinian He laughed at their sottishnesse, in hoping to bring their Oxen to their Enemies walls so unadvisedly.
1691 T. Hale Acct. New Inventions p. xxiii The idle conceit of the Fish Remora, which mens sottishness hath made a vulgar one.
a1758 J. Edwards in C. H. Spurgeon Treasury of David (1874) IV. 301 The sottishness of their being insensible of God's all~seeing eye.
2. Condition or conduct typical of a sot: esp. indulgence in drinking to excess.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [noun]
overdrinkeOE
drinkingc1200
excessc1386
bibbinga1400
bollingc1540
boozingc1540
bousingc1540
swillingc1563
tippling1567
carousing1582
swinking1590
bezzling1598
swill1602
swink1611
overdrinking1616
popination1623
sottishness1648
fuddling1665
toping1668
bibbership1670
abuse1732
dram-drinking1772
dramminga1790
potation1808
spree1811
muzzling1828
bibbery1831
Bacchanalianism1855
Bacchanalism1858
smiling1858
bibulation1882
tanking1891
reeler1950
1648 G. Daniel Eclog. iii. 315 In time depart [thou] From the bewitching Sottishnes of Sin.
1664 N. Ingelo Bentivolio & Urania: 2nd Pt. vi. 284 They naturally sink themselves into an unspeakable Sottishness.
1706 G. Stanhope Paraphr. Epist. & Gospels III. 222 The Sottishness of a debauched Understanding.
1785 W. Paley Moral & Polit. Philos. (1841) iv. ii. 180 That solitary sottishness which waits neither for company nor invitation.
1855 F. D. Maurice Learning & Working 322 I cannot conceive how a people, fallen..into feebleness, strife and sottishness, could have escaped the severest punishments.
1860 E. B. Pusey Minor Prophets 29 The stupid sottishness of the confirmed voluptuary.
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