asininity
asininity noun: the quality of being asinine; obstinate stupidity.
Noun
asininity (countable and uncountable, plural asininities)
- 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...1929, Hugo Karl Schilling, Goethe in His Diaries, page xvi
- An asinine remark, behaviour, etc.
asininity meaning in Tamil and Urdu
asininity in Tamil
- கழுதை போன்ற தன்மை, அறிவு மழுங்கல், முரண்டு
asininity in Urdu
- بےوقوفی, حماقت, گدھا پن
Forms of asininity
| plural | asininities |
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Origin of asininity
From asinine + -ity.
Questions about asininity
- What does asininity mean?
- Asininity means the quality of being asinine; obstinate stupidity.
- What is asininity in Tamil?
- Asininity in Tamil is கழுதை போன்ற தன்மை, அறிவு மழுங்கல், முரண்டு. See Asininity meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is asininity?
- Asininity is a noun.
- What is the plural of asininity?
- The plural of asininity is asininities.
Words near asininity in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: asininity (page history and authors); asininity (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); asininity (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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