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synonyms for witlessness

  • absurdity
  • craziness
  • foolishness
  • idiocy
  • indiscretion
  • lunacy
  • madness
  • recklessness
  • silliness
  • stupidity
  • daftness
  • fatuity
  • imbecility
  • impracticality
  • imprudence
  • inadvisability
  • inanity
  • irrationality
  • obliquity
  • rashness
  • senselessness
  • triviality
  • unsoundness
  • vice
  • dottiness
  • dumb thing to do
  • dumb trick
  • preposterousness
On this page you'll find 317 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to witlessness, such as: absurdity, craziness, foolishness, idiocy, indiscretion, and lunacy.

antonyms for witlessness

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  • care
  • carefulness
  • intelligence
  • sense
  • judgment
  • knowledge
  • seriousness
  • understanding
  • wisdom
  • judgment
  • sense
  • wisdom
  • care
  • carefulness
  • caution
  • circumspection
  • prudence
  • seriousness
  • thoughtfulness
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How to use witlessness in a sentence

He was impatient of ordinary human witlessness, and spoke to his fellows, not as man to man, but as Apollo from his seat.
THE ART OF LETTERSROBERT LYND
He's too good a fellow to turn down in his little day of witlessness.
THE HELPERSFRANCIS LYNDE
Perhaps, too, she had another reason for regretting her companion's witlessness.
ARCHIBALD MALMAISONJULIAN HAWTHORNE
It describes the inward shrinking and shrivelling of a depraved nature, the witlessness which results from wickedness.
THE EXPOSITOR'S BIBLE: THE BOOK OF PROVERBSR. F. HORTON
But so far neither avarice nor witlessness has betrayed anything.
THE UNVEILING OF LHASAEDMUND CANDLER
His intelligence might be equalled, but not his witlessness!
THE WISDOM OF CONFUCIUSEPIPHANIUS WILSON
It was not mere witlessness she contributed to their trouble.
MARRIAGEH. G. WELLS
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