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stupidity

/stuˈpɪdɪti/ noun B2
  1. The property of being stupid. (uncountable) · I suppose you can put it down to gross stupidity, but that's not much of an excuse.
  2. An act that is stupid. (countable) · Jimmy's stupidity cost him his car.

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The stupidity with which he was favoured by nature must guard his courtship from any charm that could make a woman wish for its continuance; and Miss Lucas, who accepted him solely from the pure and disinterested desire of an establishment, cared not how soon that establishment were gained.
Pride and Prejudice, p. 142 · B2
Colonel Fitzwilliam’s occasionally laughing at his stupidity proved that he was generally different, which her own knowledge of him could not have told her; and as she would have liked to believe this change the effect of love, and the object of that love her friend Eliza, she set herself seriously to work to find it out: she watched him whenever they were at Rosings, and whenever he came to Hunsford; but without much success.
Pride and Prejudice, p. 210 · B2
Some time hence it will be all found out, and then we may laugh at their stupidity in not knowing it before.
Pride and Prejudice, p. 255 · B2
Gardiner abused her stupidity.
Pride and Prejudice, p. 272 · B2

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