stupidity

Other forms of stupidity

plural

stupidities·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about stupidity

What does stupidity mean?

stupidity means "a poor ability to understand or to profit from experience". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in stupidity?

stupidity has 4 syllables: stu-pid-i-ty. The stress falls on "pid". In IPA it is /stuˈpɪdɪˌti/.

What is another word for stupidity?

Close synonyms include betise, folly, foolishness, imbecility. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of stupidity?

The recorded antonyms are intelligence.

Is stupidity a common word?

stupidity is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with stupidity?

66 words rhyme with stupidity. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.