asininity

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asininity

noun asininities

  1. uncountable The quality of being asinine; obstinate stupidity He speaks of certain actions of the president of the cabinet as throwing an ugly light upon his character; he calls an apparently dishonest vote of another member of the cabinet “rotten” (hundsföttisch, which is even stronger and not translatable); and he mentions, without comment, “Lenz’s asininity
  2. countable An asinine remark, behaviour, etc.

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noun quality of being asinine

DeutschDämlichkeit, Dümmlichkeit

noun asinine remark, etc.

DeutschDämlichkeit, Dümmlichkeit, Eselei
Italianoasineria, ciucata
Ελληνικάγαϊδουριά gaïdouriá

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@misc{asininity_2026,
  title = {asininity},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/asininity},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}