dimwittedness
- noun
- /ˈdɪmˌwɪtɪdnəs/
- Offensive
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estupidez
- They laughed at his dimwittedness after he misunderstood the joke everyone else found funny.
Examples
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Her dimwittedness made it difficult for her to follow the instructions effectively.
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I pray the Spirit opens your eyes to your dimwittedness and foolishness.
Blog text (3) -
Good sirs, I'm not a witch... but I forgive your common dimwittedness and feeble brains.
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He realized his dimwittedness when he couldn't solve a simple math problem during the test.
Synonyms
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2.5
Not being smart or having good judgment
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Being slow to understand or notice things
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A state of not understanding things quickly
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A condition when a person's ability to think and learn develops less quickly than usual
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Not able to understand things quickly
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Slow thinking and trouble understanding new things
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Being slow to understand things and often acting in a silly way
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7.2
A way of thinking that is not careful or deep
A state when someone is slow to understand things
A lack of cleverness or quick thinking
Low mental ability to think clearly or learn
Thinking ability that is much lower than most people's and shown by standard tests
Antonyms
How Stupid
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Dimwittedness combines dim ('not bright') and wit ('mind' or 'quick thinking') with the ending -ness that makes it a state. Imagine someone's mind in low light; that's why dimwittedness means the quality of being slow to understand.