stupidityn.

Brit.

/stjuːˈpɪdᵻti/,

/stʃuːˈpɪdᵻti/,

/stjᵿˈpɪdᵻti/,

/stʃᵿˈpɪdᵻti/, U.S.

/st(j)uˈpɪdᵻdi/

Forms: 1500s stupidite, 1500s stupydite, 1500s stupydyte, 1500s–1600s stupiditie, 1500s– stupidity.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French stupidité; Latin stupiditās.

Etymology: < (i) Middle French, French stupidité insensibility, apathy (early 16th cent.), gross lack of intelligence, also absence of common sense (1537 or earlier), state of stupor brought about by overwhelming emotions (1580), and its etymon (ii) classical Latin stupiditās lack of intelligence, foolishness < stupidus stupid adj. + -tās (see -ty suffix¹; compare -ity suffix). Compare earlier stupefaction n., stupor n.

a. The state, quality or fact of being stupid or foolish; lack or absence of intelligence, perceptiveness, or common sense. Also: stupid or foolish thinking or behaviour.

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

?1541 R. Copland Galen's Fourth Bk. Terapeutyke sig. Cij^v, in Guy de Chauliac's Questyonary Cyrurgyens Nowe we must esteme the stupydyte [Fr. stupidite] or audacyte of the man. I say the stupidite yf he thynke to say well, and the boldnes yf he fele hym selfe culpable to saye nothynge.

1616 B. Jonson Every Man in his Humor (rev. ed.) iii. v, in Wks. I. 39 I forgiue M^r. Stephen, for he is stupiditie it selfe!

1675 in F. P. Verney & M. M. Verney Mem. Verney Family 17th Cent. (1907) II. 292 God watt his stupiditie will find it a hard Taske to learn one [sc. a trade].

1713 Guardian 8 Apr. Nothing..is more insupportable to Men of Sense, than an empty formal man who speaks in Proverbs... This piece of Stupidity is the more insufferable, as it puts on the Air of Wisdom.

1843 R. S. Surtees Handley Cross II. vi. 144 The captain bit his lips and cursed his stupidity for getting himself into such a mess.

1896 Law Times 101 516/1 On the average, stupidity in the Church gets better paid than brains at the Bar.

1903 Westm. Rev. Jan. 85 The backwardness of the pupils is due far more to their innate stupidity than to any faulty teaching.

1963 H. Pinter Collection in Plays: 2 (1996) 144 Come on, Billy, I think we've had enough of this stupidity, don't you?

2017 @sharcat12 16 Jan. in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) Again, I'm speechless at the sheer stupidity and ignorance of some people.

b. An act or instance of this; a stupid or foolish action or idea.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > stupidity, dullness of intellect > [noun] > stupid deed, thought, etc.

sotheada1200

dotage1528

stupidity1594

sottery1598

dote1643

sottise1673

idiocy1822

jobbernowlism1824

noodledom1827

noodleism1829

crassitude1865

1594 tr. A. Arnauld Arrainm. Whole Soc. Iesuits in France f. 15^v What a carelesse stupiditie is this, that such Caterpillers as these..haue gotten within these thirtie yeeres two hundred thousand Francks of reuenue.

1633 G. Herbert Temple: Sacred Poems 153 Their hearts Are given over..To such Mahometan stupidities, As the old heathen would deem prodigies.

1707 tr. P. Le Lorrain de Vallemont Curiosities in Husbandry & Gardening 245 There..is an infinity of learned Men, who would think themselves Hereticks in Philosophy, if they..thought to search after Truth elsewhere... This is so great a Stupidity, that [etc.].

1783 W. Thomson Man in Moon I. i. 24 It requires the utmost efforts of my genius to put a plausible face on his gross stupidities, absurdities, false assertions..and contradictions.

1852 Working Man's Friend 18 Dec. 180/2 Another stupidity of the same sort is perpetrated in England in the mode of collecting tickets upon a railroad train.

1868 E. Edwards Life Sir W. Ralegh I. xxiii. 525 To..enlightened persons..such themes..are of course, mere obsolete stupidities.

1922 A. Crowley Diary of Drug Fiend iii. ii. 267 She actually seemed to take a perverse pleasure in seeing me caught out in a stupidity.

2012 Times Lit. Suppl. 6 Jan. 7/4 It is far more successful..as a critique of the fallacies, the simplicities and the stupidities of his intellectual opponents.

a. A state or condition of emotional or spiritual numbness or dullness; lack of feeling or interest; apathy, indifference. Later chiefly in religious contexts. Now rare (in later use sometimes merging with sense 1a).

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > absence of emotion > [noun] > want of or incapacity for emotion

dryheada1300

lethargyc1380

drynessc1450

dumping1542

unsensibility1551

insensibleness?1555

unsensibleness?1555

stupidity1568

stolidity1570

stupor1570

dumpishness1574

senselessness1577

innaturality1579

astoniedness1580

impassibility1603

stupefaction1603

torpor1607

deadness1611

unsufferance1611

hebetude1621

nonsense1621

drought1622

hebetation1623

obstupefaction1625

unanswerableness1626

tastelessnessa1631

insensateness1646

impassiveness1648

obtuseness1648

barrenness1655

torpulency1657

sterility1661

spiritlessness1669

unspiritedness1669

unaffectedness1678

insensibility1691

stolidness1727

apathy1742

impenetrableness1747

unfeelingness1766

impassivity1794

unfeeling1805

soullessness1811

incommobility1822

obtusity1823

unimpressibleness1830

hardhead1836

stockishness1837

insensitiveness1838

impenetrability1847

unreceptivity1849

unsusceptibility1850

woodenness1854

unimpressionability1862

irresponsiveness1864

unresponsiveness1869

impassibleness1874

irreceptivity1881

unimpressibility1889

apatheia1893

inemotivity1894

affectlessness1921

insensitivity1957

1568 G. Skeyne Breue Descriptioun Pest vi. sig. A8 The cause quhairby few ar preseruit..is maist euident..the negligence & Stupiditie of mankynd, contemptioun of medicine, [etc.].

1644 J. Milton Areopagitica 37 A grosse conforming stupidity..is more to the sudden degenerating of a Church then many subdichotomies of petty schisms.

1668 Earl of Clarendon Contempl. Psalms in Tracts (1727) 688 The stupidity of the heart alone is the cause of all desperate incogitance.

a1672 Bp. J. Wilkins Of Princ. Nat. Relig. (1675) 387 It supposes them to have..such a stupidity upon their consciences, as makes them past feeling.

1701 G. Stanhope tr. St. Augustine Pious Breathings 105 Awaken my stupidity, quicken my deadness.

1775 D. Turner Diss. Moral & Philos. vi. 95 Does not the Indulgence of irregular Passions produce that Sloth which unfits Men for weighing justly the Reasons of Things, and beget in the Soul a Stupidity concerning every Thing of a higher Nature?

1858 G. D. Doudney Gospel Cottage Lecturer IV. 96 The inward law calls for love. You are all coldness, unfeeling stupidity, rebellion, darkness, peevishness, selfishness!

1861 H. Read Coming Crisis of World vii. 106 We must not overlook another characteristic of our times..: I mean the stupidity and listlessness of the wicked at a period like the present.

1953 Acts & Proc. Gen. Synod Reformed Church Amer. 40 219 The cause [sc. of war] is the state of men's hearts and the cure may be a long time coming, through the blindness and stupidity of our hearts.

†b. Absence of resentment or retaliation in the face of an insult, injury, or oppression, regarded as a fault or weakness. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > absence of emotion > [noun] > quality of being thick-skinned or shameless

stupiditya1631

pachydermatousness1854

hard-boiledness1912

a1631 J. Donne Serm. (1956) VIII. 60 Without this [belief in the Trinity], all morall vertues are but diseases;..Active valour is but a fury, whatsoever we do, and passive valour is but a stupidity, whatsoever we suffer.

1661 A. Cowley Vision Cromwell 48 The continuance of those oppressions upon the people, which will at last tire out their patience, though it be great even to stupidity.

a1673 E. Stillingfleet Serm. (1673) vi. 110 Stupidity then under sufferings can be no part of the excellency of a man; which in its greatest height is in the Beings the most beneath him.

a. Originally: †loss of physical sensation in a part of the body; an instance of this (obsolete); (in later use) a state of impaired consciousness with diminished responsiveness to stimuli; = stupor n. 1a. Now rare or disused. stupidity of the teeth: = stupor of the teeth at stupor n. 1a [after post-classical Latin stupor dentium] .

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > physical insensibility > [noun]

unfeelingness1398

insensibility?1510

senselessness1577

indolency1603

stupidity1603

unfeeling1603

torpidity1614

torpor1626

sleepiness1647

indolence1656

insensibleness1656

narcosis1671

torpidnessa1676

torpitude1713

anaesthesia1721

deadness1764

insentience1862

the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > physical insensibility > dullness of sense perception > [noun] > state of physical stupefaction

dazedness1340

excessa1387

stupora1398

stupefaction?a1425

dazingc1522

damp1542

daziness1554

dazzling1581

stupidity1603

stupidity?1615

stupidness1619

stupification1650

dream1717

dazzlement1841

daze1855

dazement1855

lull1856

mazement1901

1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 617 Not to slacke the time, and stay untill we sensibly feele, crudities, laskes, inflamations; stupidities [Fr. refoidissemens] and mortifications of members.

1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 83 It is also good against the inflammation of the eares, the stupidity and dulnesse of the teeth.

1661 R. Lovell Πανζωορυκτολογια, sive Panzoologicomineralogia 201 The signes of their wounds are great paine,..blacknesse, and stupidity of the part.

1684 W. Russell Physical Treat. 117 I..found her drowsie, tho the Cold and Stupidity were somewhat less.

1740 H. Bracken Farriery Improv'd (ed. 2) II. vi. 273 Those Things which take away Pain by causing a Stupidity.

1806 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 15 381 The pain in her head became so acute, as to produce at times, actions of violence, which rendered confinement necessary, and the intervals were marked by stupidity.

1893 Jrnl. Amer. Med. Assoc. 30 Sept. 484/1 When the inebriate begins to arouse from his torpor and stupidity, he is invariably chilly and shivering.

1908 N.Y. Med. Jrnl. 4 Jan. 19/2 After recovering from the period of stupidity, which lasted four days, he improved steadily until discharged.

1949 J. R. Bourgoyne Surg. Mouth & Jaws ii. 49 The average preanesthetic sedation will last from two to four hours and will leave the patient in a stage of delirium or stupidity for the same length of time.

b. Dazed confusion or astonishment; stupefaction. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > physical insensibility > dullness of sense perception > [noun] > state of physical stupefaction

dazedness1340

excessa1387

stupora1398

stupefaction?a1425

dazingc1522

damp1542

daziness1554

dazzling1581

stupidity1603

stupidity?1615

stupidness1619

stupification1650

dream1717

dazzlement1841

daze1855

dazement1855

lull1856

mazement1901

?1615 G. Chapman tr. Homer Odysses (new ed.) vi. 252 Into amaze my very soule was turnd, To giue it obseruation; as now thee To view (O Virgin) a stupiditie Past admiration strikes me.

1627 M. Drayton Battaile Agincourt 39 The dreadfull bellowing..sounded like the dreadfull doome, And them with such stupidity benummes.

1700 Acct. Spain 34 He gaz'd at the fair Divinity,..and..was struck into silence and stupidity; just as a Traveller who unawares is surpriz'd with some superb Building, whose marvellous Fabrick of a sudden strikes him with inconceivable Transports.

1766 C. Berrow Lapse of Human Souls 89 The soul..astonished and surprised to find itself confined and imprisoned, may, during the first days of life, remain in a state of stupidity and dulness.

1864 London Jrnl. 24 Sept. 199/3 Mother Belzebub had sunk on her knees, gazing with a sort of horrified stupidity down into the darkness of the cellar.

1887 Lippincott's Monthly Mag. Sept. 682 He contemplated the result with a bewildered stupidity, as Cain may have looked on the slain Abel.

1912 Windsor Mag. 35 518/2 Aidan..pushed him violently into the road, where he fell and lay, looking about him with astonished stupidity.

1994 P. O'Brian Commodore v. 128 Seeing the blank stupidity on the Doctor's face he added ‘Had you not noticed it is still in the west-south-west?’

4. English regional (Lincolnshire). Obstinacy; stubbornness. More widespread regional use of stupid and stupidly in closely related senses (stupid adj. 5, stupidly adv. 5) may suggest wider currency of this sense of stupidity.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > will > decision > obstinacy or stubbornness > [noun]

obstination?1387

pertinacyc1390

obstinacya1393

thronessa1400

stubbornnessc1440

obstinance?a1475

durenessc1480

pertinacity?1504

stomacha1513

stiffness1526

tenacity1526

persistence1546

obstacleness1548

obstinateness1561

stiffneckedness1570

self-mindedness1574

intractability1579

persistency1600

obstinancy1614

contumacy1619

stomachfulness1621

tenaciousness1642

pertinaciousness1651

irresignation1657

peremptoriness1747

mulishness1763

strongheadedness1793

dourness1794

unmovableness1818

stoutheartedness1826

bullet-headednessa1849

stalwartism1879

camelishness1883

thick and thin1884

stupidity1886

jusqu'auboutisme1917

die-hardism1922

obstinative-

1886 R. E. G. Cole Gloss. Words S.-W. Lincs. Stupidity, obstinacy, not dullness. They understood it well enough; it was stupidity, and nowt else.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2019; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	stupidity
释义	stupidityn. Brit. /stjuːˈpɪdᵻti/, /stʃuːˈpɪdᵻti/, /stjᵿˈpɪdᵻti/, /stʃᵿˈpɪdᵻti/, U.S. /st(j)uˈpɪdᵻdi/ Forms: 1500s stupidite, 1500s stupydite, 1500s stupydyte, 1500s–1600s stupiditie, 1500s– stupidity. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French stupidité; Latin stupiditās. Etymology: < (i) Middle French, French stupidité insensibility, apathy (early 16th cent.), gross lack of intelligence, also absence of common sense (1537 or earlier), state of stupor brought about by overwhelming emotions (1580), and its etymon (ii) classical Latin stupiditās lack of intelligence, foolishness < stupidus stupid adj. + -tās (see -ty suffix¹; compare -ity suffix). Compare earlier stupefaction n., stupor n. 1. a. The state, quality or fact of being stupid or foolish; lack or absence of intelligence, perceptiveness, or common sense. Also: stupid or foolish thinking or behaviour. 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 ?1541 R. Copland Galen's Fourth Bk. Terapeutyke sig. Cij^v, in Guy de Chauliac's Questyonary Cyrurgyens Nowe we must esteme the stupydyte [Fr. stupidite] or audacyte of the man. I say the stupidite yf he thynke to say well, and the boldnes yf he fele hym selfe culpable to saye nothynge. 1616 B. Jonson Every Man in his Humor (rev. ed.) iii. v, in Wks. I. 39 I forgiue M^r. Stephen, for he is stupiditie it selfe! 1675 in F. P. Verney & M. M. Verney Mem. Verney Family 17th Cent. (1907) II. 292 God watt his stupiditie will find it a hard Taske to learn one [sc. a trade]. 1713 Guardian 8 Apr. Nothing..is more insupportable to Men of Sense, than an empty formal man who speaks in Proverbs... This piece of Stupidity is the more insufferable, as it puts on the Air of Wisdom. 1843 R. S. Surtees Handley Cross II. vi. 144 The captain bit his lips and cursed his stupidity for getting himself into such a mess. 1896 Law Times 101 516/1 On the average, stupidity in the Church gets better paid than brains at the Bar. 1903 Westm. Rev. Jan. 85 The backwardness of the pupils is due far more to their innate stupidity than to any faulty teaching. 1963 H. Pinter Collection in Plays: 2 (1996) 144 Come on, Billy, I think we've had enough of this stupidity, don't you? 2017 @sharcat12 16 Jan. in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) Again, I'm speechless at the sheer stupidity and ignorance of some people. b. An act or instance of this; a stupid or foolish action or idea. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > stupidity, dullness of intellect > [noun] > stupid deed, thought, etc. sotheada1200 dotage1528 stupidity1594 sottery1598 dote1643 sottise1673 idiocy1822 jobbernowlism1824 noodledom1827 noodleism1829 crassitude1865 1594 tr. A. Arnauld Arrainm. Whole Soc. Iesuits in France f. 15^v What a carelesse stupiditie is this, that such Caterpillers as these..haue gotten within these thirtie yeeres two hundred thousand Francks of reuenue. 1633 G. Herbert Temple: Sacred Poems 153 Their hearts Are given over..To such Mahometan stupidities, As the old heathen would deem prodigies. 1707 tr. P. Le Lorrain de Vallemont Curiosities in Husbandry & Gardening 245 There..is an infinity of learned Men, who would think themselves Hereticks in Philosophy, if they..thought to search after Truth elsewhere... This is so great a Stupidity, that [etc.]. 1783 W. Thomson Man in Moon I. i. 24 It requires the utmost efforts of my genius to put a plausible face on his gross stupidities, absurdities, false assertions..and contradictions. 1852 Working Man's Friend 18 Dec. 180/2 Another stupidity of the same sort is perpetrated in England in the mode of collecting tickets upon a railroad train. 1868 E. Edwards Life Sir W. Ralegh I. xxiii. 525 To..enlightened persons..such themes..are of course, mere obsolete stupidities. 1922 A. Crowley Diary of Drug Fiend iii. ii. 267 She actually seemed to take a perverse pleasure in seeing me caught out in a stupidity. 2012 Times Lit. Suppl. 6 Jan. 7/4 It is far more successful..as a critique of the fallacies, the simplicities and the stupidities of his intellectual opponents. 2. a. A state or condition of emotional or spiritual numbness or dullness; lack of feeling or interest; apathy, indifference. Later chiefly in religious contexts. Now rare (in later use sometimes merging with sense 1a). ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > absence of emotion > [noun] > want of or incapacity for emotion dryheada1300 lethargyc1380 drynessc1450 dumping1542 unsensibility1551 insensibleness?1555 unsensibleness?1555 stupidity1568 stolidity1570 stupor1570 dumpishness1574 senselessness1577 innaturality1579 astoniedness1580 impassibility1603 stupefaction1603 torpor1607 deadness1611 unsufferance1611 hebetude1621 nonsense1621 drought1622 hebetation1623 obstupefaction1625 unanswerableness1626 tastelessnessa1631 insensateness1646 impassiveness1648 obtuseness1648 barrenness1655 torpulency1657 sterility1661 spiritlessness1669 unspiritedness1669 unaffectedness1678 insensibility1691 stolidness1727 apathy1742 impenetrableness1747 unfeelingness1766 impassivity1794 unfeeling1805 soullessness1811 incommobility1822 obtusity1823 unimpressibleness1830 hardhead1836 stockishness1837 insensitiveness1838 impenetrability1847 unreceptivity1849 unsusceptibility1850 woodenness1854 unimpressionability1862 irresponsiveness1864 unresponsiveness1869 impassibleness1874 irreceptivity1881 unimpressibility1889 apatheia1893 inemotivity1894 affectlessness1921 insensitivity1957 1568 G. Skeyne Breue Descriptioun Pest vi. sig. A8 The cause quhairby few ar preseruit..is maist euident..the negligence & Stupiditie of mankynd, contemptioun of medicine, [etc.]. 1644 J. Milton Areopagitica 37 A grosse conforming stupidity..is more to the sudden degenerating of a Church then many subdichotomies of petty schisms. 1668 Earl of Clarendon Contempl. Psalms in Tracts (1727) 688 The stupidity of the heart alone is the cause of all desperate incogitance. a1672 Bp. J. Wilkins Of Princ. Nat. Relig. (1675) 387 It supposes them to have..such a stupidity upon their consciences, as makes them past feeling. 1701 G. Stanhope tr. St. Augustine Pious Breathings 105 Awaken my stupidity, quicken my deadness. 1775 D. Turner Diss. Moral & Philos. vi. 95 Does not the Indulgence of irregular Passions produce that Sloth which unfits Men for weighing justly the Reasons of Things, and beget in the Soul a Stupidity concerning every Thing of a higher Nature? 1858 G. D. Doudney Gospel Cottage Lecturer IV. 96 The inward law calls for love. You are all coldness, unfeeling stupidity, rebellion, darkness, peevishness, selfishness! 1861 H. Read Coming Crisis of World vii. 106 We must not overlook another characteristic of our times..: I mean the stupidity and listlessness of the wicked at a period like the present. 1953 Acts & Proc. Gen. Synod Reformed Church Amer. 40 219 The cause [sc. of war] is the state of men's hearts and the cure may be a long time coming, through the blindness and stupidity of our hearts. †b. Absence of resentment or retaliation in the face of an insult, injury, or oppression, regarded as a fault or weakness. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > absence of emotion > [noun] > quality of being thick-skinned or shameless stupiditya1631 pachydermatousness1854 hard-boiledness1912 a1631 J. Donne Serm. (1956) VIII. 60 Without this [belief in the Trinity], all morall vertues are but diseases;..Active valour is but a fury, whatsoever we do, and passive valour is but a stupidity, whatsoever we suffer. 1661 A. Cowley Vision Cromwell 48 The continuance of those oppressions upon the people, which will at last tire out their patience, though it be great even to stupidity. a1673 E. Stillingfleet Serm. (1673) vi. 110 Stupidity then under sufferings can be no part of the excellency of a man; which in its greatest height is in the Beings the most beneath him. 3. a. Originally: †loss of physical sensation in a part of the body; an instance of this (obsolete); (in later use) a state of impaired consciousness with diminished responsiveness to stimuli; = stupor n. 1a. Now rare or disused. stupidity of the teeth: = stupor of the teeth at stupor n. 1a [after post-classical Latin stupor dentium] . ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > physical insensibility > [noun] unfeelingness1398 insensibility?1510 senselessness1577 indolency1603 stupidity1603 unfeeling1603 torpidity1614 torpor1626 sleepiness1647 indolence1656 insensibleness1656 narcosis1671 torpidnessa1676 torpitude1713 anaesthesia1721 deadness1764 insentience1862 the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > physical insensibility > dullness of sense perception > [noun] > state of physical stupefaction dazedness1340 excessa1387 stupora1398 stupefaction?a1425 dazingc1522 damp1542 daziness1554 dazzling1581 stupidity1603 stupidity?1615 stupidness1619 stupification1650 dream1717 dazzlement1841 daze1855 dazement1855 lull1856 mazement1901 1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 617 Not to slacke the time, and stay untill we sensibly feele, crudities, laskes, inflamations; stupidities [Fr. refoidissemens] and mortifications of members. 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 83 It is also good against the inflammation of the eares, the stupidity and dulnesse of the teeth. 1661 R. Lovell Πανζωορυκτολογια, sive Panzoologicomineralogia 201 The signes of their wounds are great paine,..blacknesse, and stupidity of the part. 1684 W. Russell Physical Treat. 117 I..found her drowsie, tho the Cold and Stupidity were somewhat less. 1740 H. Bracken Farriery Improv'd (ed. 2) II. vi. 273 Those Things which take away Pain by causing a Stupidity. 1806 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 15 381 The pain in her head became so acute, as to produce at times, actions of violence, which rendered confinement necessary, and the intervals were marked by stupidity. 1893 Jrnl. Amer. Med. Assoc. 30 Sept. 484/1 When the inebriate begins to arouse from his torpor and stupidity, he is invariably chilly and shivering. 1908 N.Y. Med. Jrnl. 4 Jan. 19/2 After recovering from the period of stupidity, which lasted four days, he improved steadily until discharged. 1949 J. R. Bourgoyne Surg. Mouth & Jaws ii. 49 The average preanesthetic sedation will last from two to four hours and will leave the patient in a stage of delirium or stupidity for the same length of time. b. Dazed confusion or astonishment; stupefaction. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > physical insensibility > dullness of sense perception > [noun] > state of physical stupefaction dazedness1340 excessa1387 stupora1398 stupefaction?a1425 dazingc1522 damp1542 daziness1554 dazzling1581 stupidity1603 stupidity?1615 stupidness1619 stupification1650 dream1717 dazzlement1841 daze1855 dazement1855 lull1856 mazement1901 ?1615 G. Chapman tr. Homer Odysses (new ed.) vi. 252 Into amaze my very soule was turnd, To giue it obseruation; as now thee To view (O Virgin) a stupiditie Past admiration strikes me. 1627 M. Drayton Battaile Agincourt 39 The dreadfull bellowing..sounded like the dreadfull doome, And them with such stupidity benummes. 1700 Acct. Spain 34 He gaz'd at the fair Divinity,..and..was struck into silence and stupidity; just as a Traveller who unawares is surpriz'd with some superb Building, whose marvellous Fabrick of a sudden strikes him with inconceivable Transports. 1766 C. Berrow Lapse of Human Souls 89 The soul..astonished and surprised to find itself confined and imprisoned, may, during the first days of life, remain in a state of stupidity and dulness. 1864 London Jrnl. 24 Sept. 199/3 Mother Belzebub had sunk on her knees, gazing with a sort of horrified stupidity down into the darkness of the cellar. 1887 Lippincott's Monthly Mag. Sept. 682 He contemplated the result with a bewildered stupidity, as Cain may have looked on the slain Abel. 1912 Windsor Mag. 35 518/2 Aidan..pushed him violently into the road, where he fell and lay, looking about him with astonished stupidity. 1994 P. O'Brian Commodore v. 128 Seeing the blank stupidity on the Doctor's face he added ‘Had you not noticed it is still in the west-south-west?’ 4. English regional (Lincolnshire). Obstinacy; stubbornness. More widespread regional use of stupid and stupidly in closely related senses (stupid adj. 5, stupidly adv. 5) may suggest wider currency of this sense of stupidity. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > decision > obstinacy or stubbornness > [noun] obstination?1387 pertinacyc1390 obstinacya1393 thronessa1400 stubbornnessc1440 obstinance?a1475 durenessc1480 pertinacity?1504 stomacha1513 stiffness1526 tenacity1526 persistence1546 obstacleness1548 obstinateness1561 stiffneckedness1570 self-mindedness1574 intractability1579 persistency1600 obstinancy1614 contumacy1619 stomachfulness1621 tenaciousness1642 pertinaciousness1651 irresignation1657 peremptoriness1747 mulishness1763 strongheadedness1793 dourness1794 unmovableness1818 stoutheartedness1826 bullet-headednessa1849 stalwartism1879 camelishness1883 thick and thin1884 stupidity1886 jusqu'auboutisme1917 die-hardism1922 obstinative- 1886 R. E. G. Cole Gloss. Words S.-W. Lincs. Stupidity, obstinacy, not dullness. They understood it well enough; it was stupidity, and nowt else. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2019; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.?1541
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