imbecilities
Acts of idiocy
Imbecilities is the plural of imbecility—acts or instances of profound stupidity or foolishness.
The word carries more weight than mere mistakes; it suggests decisions or behaviors so lacking in judgment they border on the incomprehensible: The committee's imbecilities have cost us millions.
Once a clinical term for intellectual disability, imbecility now serves mainly as emphatic criticism of foolish conduct.
Absence of good judgment
- absurdityWildly illogical quality
- nonsenseMeaningless words or actions
- sillinessFrivolous, absurd behavior
- idiocyExtreme mental deficiency
fatuity · inanity · tomfoolery · buffoonery · foolery · asininity · preposterousness · ridiculousness
Absence of rational thought
- illogicalityFailure of sound reasoning
- absurdityWildly illogical quality
- nonsensicalityMeaningless or illogical quality
- fallacyError in reasoning
delusion · foolhardiness · misjudgment · misconception · senselessness · thoughtlessness · recklessness · imprudence
Mishandling through incompetence
- clumsinessLack of physical grace
- ineptitudeLack of ability
- maladroitnessLack of skill or coordination
- awkwardnessLack of grace or ease
fumbling · blundering · ineffectiveness · unskillfulness · amateurishness · incapacity · inability · inadequacy
State of profound unawareness
- nescienceLack of knowledge
- unenlightenmentAbsence of knowledge or awareness
- unawarenessState of not knowing
- naivetyInnocent lack of experience
cluelessness · obliviousness · simplemindedness · inexperience · unknowingness · illiteracy · misguidedness
folly
Absence of good judgment
- absurdityWildly illogical quality
- nonsenseMeaningless words or actions
- sillinessFrivolous, absurd behavior
idiocy · fatuity · inanity · tomfoolery · buffoonery · foolery · asininity · preposterousness · ridiculousness · ludicrousness
unreason
Absence of rational thought
- illogicalityFailure of sound reasoning
- absurdityWildly illogical quality
- nonsensicalityMeaningless or illogical quality
fallacy · delusion · foolhardiness · misjudgment · misconception · senselessness · thoughtlessness · recklessness · imprudence · injudiciousness
bungling
Mishandling through incompetence
- clumsinessLack of physical grace
- ineptitudeLack of ability
- maladroitnessLack of skill or coordination
awkwardness · fumbling · blundering · ineffectiveness · unskillfulness · amateurishness · incapacity · inability · inadequacy · inefficiency
benightedness
State of profound unawareness
- nescienceLack of knowledge
- unenlightenmentAbsence of knowledge or awareness
- unawarenessState of not knowing
naivety · cluelessness · obliviousness · simplemindedness · inexperience · unknowingness · illiteracy · misguidedness
imbecilitieswisdoms
Bodies of profound understanding
brilliances · insights · profundities · intelligences · shrewdness
imbecilitiesprofundities
Matters of great depth
pearls of wisdom · truths · verities · enlightenments · illuminations
imbecilitiessensibilities
Capacity for refined feeling
competencies · masteries · skillfulness · reasonableness · levelheadedness