Synonyms for doltishness
- absurdity
- apathy
- idiocy
- ignorance
- lunacy
- nonsense
- silliness
- asininity
- fatuity
- fatuousness
- imbecility
- imprudence
- incapacity
- ineptitude
- injudiciousness
- insensibility
- obtuseness
- puerility
- shallowness
- simplicity
- slowness
- sluggishness
- stolidity
- stupefaction
- stupor
- weakness
- battiness
- brainlessness
- feeble-mindedness
- nitwittedness
- stupidness
- thick-headedness
- weak-mindedness
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Antonyms for doltishness
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EXAMPLES FROM THE WEB FOR DOLTISHNESS
Absolutely doltish beyond even Rollins's established methods of doltishness.
The possession of books like these, in such excellent condition, is no proof of doltishness.
WORD ORIGIN
1540s, perhaps a variant of dold "dull, foolish," influenced by dulte, dolte, past participle forms of Middle English dullen "to dull, make or become dazed or stupid" (see dull (adj.)). Related: Doltish; doltishly; doltishness.
MORE RELATED WORDS FOR DOLTISHNESS
dumbness
nounstupiditystupidity
noundullness of mind- absurdity
- apathy
- asininity
- battiness
- brainlessness
- doltishness
- fatuity
- fatuousness
- feeble-mindedness
- idiocy
- ignorance
- imbecility
- imprudence
- incapacity
- ineptitude
- injudiciousness
- insensibility
- lunacy
- nitwittedness
- nonsense
- obtuseness
- puerility
- shallowness
- silliness
- simplicity
- slowness
- sluggishness
- stolidity
- stupefaction
- stupidness
- stupor
- thick-headedness
- weak-mindedness
- weakness
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