Hypertext Webster Gateway: "stolidity"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Stolidity \Sto*lid"i*ty\, n. [L. stoliditas.]
The state or quality of being stolid; dullness of intellect;
obtuseness; stupidity.

Indocile, intractable fools, whose stolidity can baffle
all arguments, and be proof against demonstration
itself. --Bentley.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

stolidity
n 1: apathy demonstrated by an absence of emotional reactions
[syn: {emotionlessness}, {impassivity}, {impassiveness},
{phlegm}, {indifference}, {unemotionality}]
2: an indifference to pleasure or pain [syn: {stoicism}, {stolidness}]


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