Meanings
plural asininities
- uncountableThe quality of being asinine; obstinate stupidity
1 more example
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”—not an unduly strong term, for Lenz, his gifted but mentally unsound Strassburg friend, had for Goethe's sake been hospitably received at the Weimar court and had had committed an indiscretion which made him quite impossible there.
1929, Hugo Karl Schilling, Goethe in His Diaries, page xvi - countableAn asinine remark, behaviour, etc.
Synonyms & antonyms
Origin
Translations
Finnish aasimaisuus
- aasimaisuusasinine remark, etc.
German Dämlichkeit, Dümmlichkeit
- Dämlichkeitquality of being asinine
- Dümmlichkeitquality of being asinine
- Dämlichkeitasinine remark, etc.
- Dümmlichkeitasinine remark, etc.
- Eseleiasinine remark, etc.
Greek γαϊδουριά
- γαϊδουριά (gaïdouriá)asinine remark, etc.
Italian asineria, ciucata
- asineriaasinine remark, etc.
- ciucataasinine remark, etc.
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