Meanings
- slanguncountableLack of sense or intelligence; stupidity.
I suspect that we had to take psychedelics in the '60s because as a culture we were dumb – we needed something to collectively jolt us out of the lunkheaded dumbitude of the Leave It to Beaver '50s.
2007, Dean Sluyter, Cinema Nirvana: Enlightenment Lessons from the Movies, page 932 more examples
I gotta say, though, they're guilty of the number one dumbitude in cassette recording. No ADDRESS! Not on the cassette label – not on the insert. Yo boys! You got the review. How're people gonna get the tape?
1993, “Who Killed Bambi”, in (Almost) Nothing But Record (Tape & Video) Reviews, page 36But when we are weighing singular purchases (especially bigger ones that have a decent sized budget impact), there is a great brain hack that has been shown to minimize financial dumbitude and works well with existing budgets.
2020, Faith G. Harper, Unfuck Your Worth: Overcome Your Money Emotions, Value Your Own Labor, and Manage Financial Freak-outs in a Capitalist Hellscape, unnumbered page
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